1) an ethnicity, a person from Tlapallan
2) a person's name (attested as male) -- there was a member of the elite by this name, don Pedro Tlapaltecatl, son of Machimalle (who was possibly a son of Axayacatzin) (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
A man named Pedro de la Cruz Tlapaltecatl (Santa María de la Redonda Cuepopan) was an alcalde of Tenochtitlan in 1558.
ytoca tlapaltecatl = named Tlapaltecatl (male; husband of Necahual) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
"Throughout the battles with the Spanish, the Aztecs still practiced their traditional ceremonies and customs. Tlapaltecatl Opochtzin [actually of Coatlan] was chosen to be outfitted to wear the quetzal owl costume. He was supplied with darts sacred to Huitzilopochtli, which came with wooden tips and flint tops. When he came, the Spanish soldiers appeared scared and intimidated. They chased the owl-warrior, but he was neither captured nor killed."