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Mimich.

Headword: 
Mimich.
Principal English Translation: 

Mimich was the name of a cloud serpent (mixcoatl) in an origin story (1558); or, a person's name (attested as male in Cuernavaca)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"And then there came down two deer, each with two heads, and also these two cloud serpents named Xiuhnel and Mimich, who hunt in the Sacred Lands [to the north]." An excerpt from episode two of an origin story of 1558.
Willard Gingerich, https://historicas.unam.mx/publicaciones/revistas/nahuatl/pdf/ecn28/546.pdf.

y nican itoca mimich = whose local name is Mimich (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), 118–119. See also 162–163.