Entry № 8388 · Nahuatl origin

Quetzalli Quetzalli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ket-SAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Nahuatl
Meaning
"Precious feather"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Nahuatl)

A name that means "precious feather".

Quetzalli is the Nahuatl word for "precious feather" — referring to the iridescent green tail feathers of the quetzal bird, sacred to the Aztecs and Maya.

Quetzalli is rising in Mexico.

Precious feather. The quetzal of myth.

The name in its native script.

Quetzalli
Transliteration
Quetzalli
Pronunciation
/ kɛtˈsɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Quetzalli stands.

Quetzalli 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.

Quetzallis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Quetzalli
Common in Mexican fiction.

Names connected to Quetzalli.

The number behind Quetzalli.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Quetzalli reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.