Principal English Translation:
literally, a possessor of flowers; someone who bewitches or seduces women (Wimmer 2004, citing Sahagún); Sahagún describes a doer of evil, a feminine man, and a "pervert" in different books; Xochihua is also a person's name (attested male in one place and female in another)
Orthographic Variants:
xochioa, xuchioa, suchioa, Xochiva
Attestations from sources in English:
in suchioa cioatlatole, cioanotzale = The pervert [is] of feminine speech, of feminine mode of address. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 37.
ymota ytoca xochiva = father-in-law named Xochihua (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), 142–143.
Xochihua is a woman's name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 709v. (SW)