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Xochitonal.

Headword: 
Xochitonal.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name (attested as female and male), (Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 75.

also, the name of a mythical creature (an iguana or a lizard) in Mictlan (the land of the dead)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), citing Sahagún, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xochitonal

Attestations from sources in English: 

jua. xochitonal (the glyph next to the name has a flower on top, xochitl, and a day sign below, tonalli) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 75.

damia xochitonal (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 94.

This name is also thickly attested in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco.
See: Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/fulltext-quick-search?search_ap...

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn xochitonal teuhtli = el teuhctli Xochitonal [un nonoalca] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 138.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Celestial Phenomena
Flowers
Politics, Power, Governance
Time, Calendar, Frequency