a Spanish surname taken by Indigenous people in the colonial era
An example of a famous person of this name was don Francisco Jiménez, the indigenous "juez gobernador" of Tenochtitlan, a native of Tecamachalco, who was active in the second half of the sixteenth century (ca. 1582, México)
A man named Feliphe Xinmenez of San Pablo Mexico is mentioned in the first half of the seventeenth century in parish records of Coatepec on microfilm in the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City.