See an image that represents a personal name that comes from the verb tlalmacehua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
motlalique xoNacatepec tlaca huel achtopa tlalmaseuhque = the people of Xonacatepec settled [here] and obtained land for the very first time.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 84–85.
More on the Xonacatepec situation: "cali 1602...ycuac moptlalique xoNacatepec tlaca huel achtopa tlalmaseuhque ca yehuantin -- juan lucas -- juan cortes -- baltasar con[.?,]tzin -- lucas de luna -- juan hernandes -- juan de rojas Ca yehuantin achtopa motlalique (f. 5)" = "House (year 1603)...at this time the people from Xonacatepec established themselves. Juan Lucas, Juan Corytés, Baltasar Con[e]tzin, Lucas de Luna, Juan Hernández, and Juan de Rojas were the very first to receive land. They were the first to establish themselves." (Códice Gómez de Orozco, 1524–1691)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 70, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.
achto huel mohuetziltito yancuican tlalmacehuato yn ompa = first he went to get really settled and to acquire land there (late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 52–53.
auh ye iuh nauhpohualxihuitl ypã onxihuitl yhuan õtetl metztli onoque yn españolesme. ynic acico mexico. nican ynic tlalmacehuaco = And it had been 82 years and two months that the Spaniards were present, since they arrived in Mexico coming to acquire the land. (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 72–73.
As the above examples show, the term tlalmacehua was known and used by legitimate nahuatlatos in the seventeenth century. But it was also a popular term in the Techialoyan genre or at least we see tlalmaceuhqui (land deserver) and tlalmaceuhque (land deservers, or those who acquired land), with regularity in these later manuscripts.
ton palacizco totoquiahuatzin huey pili tlalmaceuhq... [1r, top register] = don Francisco Totoquiahuatzin, the great noble and land-deserver (central Mexico, late seventeenth or early 18th century; Techialoyan manuscript)
Techialoyan manuscript associated with San Simón Calpulalpan; transcription and translation by Stephanie Wood, made from the microfilm in the files of Donald Robertson, Latin American Library, Tulane University
tlaltecatzin tlalmac[euhqui] acolnahuacatl = the tlaltecatzin, the land deserver, Acolnahuacatl (Azcapotzalcan king) (central Mexico, late seventeenth or early 18th c.; Techialoyan manuscript) Transcription and translation by Stephanie Wood. But see, Fernando Horcasitas and Wanda Tommasi de Magrelli, "El códice de Tzictepec: una nueva fuente pictórica indígena," Anales de Antropología 12(1975): 243–272. Note: the concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos of John Bierhorst provides many citations for further referencing the title Tlaltecatzin, which was a royal title held by Tepanec rulers.