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a person's name (usually male, although not always specified); also, Tlacochintzin, a principal merchant in the time of Moquiuixtzin in Tlatelolco (central Mexico, sixteenth century); it seems that the root of the name is the word for lance, spear, or javelin (tlacochtli)
See an image that represents Tlacochin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
This was a youth of fifteen, gender not specified, but probably male. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
Tlacoch (presumably from tlacochtli) and Tlacochin are personal names for men that can be found many times in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin-mh485v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin-mh497r
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin-mh498v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacoch-mh554r
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtemoc-mh525v
Tlacochcalcatl is a title that relates to this name, too. See for example:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochcalcatl-mdz65r
Some of the glyphs for Tlacochin or Tlacochcalcatl are structures made from the projectiles, perhaps building on the phonetic indicator, tlacochinamitl.