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Cecihuatl.

Headword: 
Cecihuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as female)

Orthographic Variants: 
Çecivatl, Çeçivatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca çeçivatl = named Cecihuatl (gender not indicated, but would appear to be female) (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), 136–137.

In another example, we see a Cecihuatl (Çeçivatl) who is a widow, and therefore the name is attested as female, as one might expect given the component "cihuatl" (woman). (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), 146–147.