a name taken by Nahuas in the post-contact period, such as don Antonio Valeriano, a governor and judge in Azcapotzalco; don Antnio married a niece, doña Bárbara (daughter of don Juan de Tovar), and they had a son Nicolás Valeriano (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Barry D. Sell calls don Antonio Valeriano "the most renowned Nahua Latinist of colonial Mexico"
auh fiscal. S. Franco. mochiuh. yn Don Antonio valeriano. telpochtli tequicaltitlan chane = don Antonio Valeriano the younger, citizen of Tequicaltitlā, became fiscal at San Francisco (central Mexico, 1608)
yn icuac fiscal catca Don Antonio Valleriano yn axcan ye gouor azcaputzalco = when don Antonio Valeriano, now governor of Azcapotzalco, was fiscal (central Mexico, 1613)