Cuitlahuac
Nahuatl · Boy · 3 syllables
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About the name Cuitlahuac
The name 'Cuitlahuac' means "excrement" or "dung" in the Nahuatl language, derived from the root *cuitla-* (excrement) and the locative suffix *-huac* ("place of").
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Etymology
The name 'Cuitlahuac' means "excrement" or "dung" in the Nahuatl language, derived from the root *cuitla-* (excrement) and the locative suffix *-huac* ("place of"). It was used by the Aztec (Mexica) culture in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, most notably as the name of Cuitláhuac, the tenth tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan who led the Aztec resistance against the Spanish in 1520.
Cuitlahuac currently ranks #9,814 in the United States as a boy's name. It reached its peak popularity around 1992.
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