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Tenoch.

Headword: 
Tenoch.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tenuch, Tenochti, Tenochi
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Tenoch in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Tenuch, famed for founding and governing Tenochtitlan, appears in the Codex Mendoza on folio 2r. (Stephanie Wood, Editor)
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tenoch-mdz2r

itoca tenoch = named Tenoch (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 126–127.

Tenoch = a "priest and chief"
Antonio García Cubas, Mexico: Its Trade, Industry, and Resources, 1893, 378.

Tenochti = a chieftain who first ruled over what became Tenochtitlan (Mexico City today).
Robert Payne, Mexico City (1968), 13.

Tenochi = a tribute payer in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 706r. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=490&st=image

Tenochi = purported to be one of the first four men of creation in Mexico
Louis H. Ayme, "Mexican Theogony, Cosmogony," Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine, A Monthly of History, Folk-Lore, Mathematics, Literature, Art, Arcane Societies, Etc., 20:3 (1902), 68.