Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

Tecuichpoch.

Headword: 
Tecuichpoch.
Principal English Translation: 

a woman's name, attested in sixteenth-century Morelos
Julia Madajczak, ‎Katarzyna Anna Granicka, and ‎Szymon Gruda, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library (2021), 209.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The name Tecuichpoch (sometimes spelled Tecuichpo) was also held by Isabel Tecuichpoch, daughter of Motecuhtzoma the younger. Various sources also mention her brother, Axopacatzin, who had disabilities and could not take the throne after his uncle, Cuitlahuac, died.
Susan D. Gillespie, The Aztec Kings (2022), 107.

The man called Huei Tlahtoani married Tecuichpoch, his niece, when she was only 10 years old, so they did not produce an heir to the throne.
Jesús Ignacio Fernández Domingo, Estudio del testamento de Don Hernando Cortés, Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1999), 76.

This name might combine Tecuh- from tecuhtli (lord) with -ichpoch from ichpochtli (maiden). (SW)