Entry № 6641 · Nahuatl origin

Mayahuel Mayahuel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-yah-WEL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Nahuatl
Meaning
"Aztec goddess of the maguey (mother of 400 rabbits)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Nahuatl)

A name that means "aztec goddess of the maguey (mother of 400 rabbits)".

Mayahuel is the Aztec goddess of the maguey (agave) plant — patroness of fertility and intoxication, from whose plant comes pulque (and modern tequila and mezcal). Mother of the Centzon Totochtin, the "400 Rabbits" who are the gods of drunkenness.

Aztec goddess of the maguey.

The name in its native script.

Mayahuel
Transliteration
Mayahuel
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑː.jɑːˈwɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mayahuel stands.

Mayahuel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mayahuels before her.

Real people
Mayahuel
Aztec goddess.
In fiction
Mayahuel
Featured in the Florentine Codex.

Names connected to Mayahuel.

The number behind Mayahuel.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mayahuel reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.