Entry № 10668 · Other origin

Tonantzin Tonantzin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ toh-nahnt-ZEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Our Sacred Mother (Aztec mother goddess + Guadalupe syncretism)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Nahuatl)

A name that means "our sacred mother (aztec mother goddess + guadalupe syncretism)".

Tonantzin is from the Nahuatl to-nan-tzin (our + mother + reverential suffix) — Our Sacred Mother. The Our Lady of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe) — the great religious-cultural icon of Mexico and Latin America — is widely associated with Tonantzin in Mexican-Catholic syncretism. Tonantzin appears in modern Chicana feminist works by Gloria Anzaldúa and Sandra Cisneros.

Our Sacred Mother (Nahuatl).

The name in its native script.

Tonantzin
Transliteration
Tonantzin
Pronunciation
/ toʊˌnɑːntˈsiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tonantzin stands.

Tonantzin 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.

Tonantzins before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tonantzin (Aztec)
Aztec mother goddess.

Names connected to Tonantzin.

The number behind Tonantzin.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tonantzin reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.