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Xilonen Xilonen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shee-LOH-nen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Aztec young corn goddess - Hairy One"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Nahuatl)

A name that means "aztec young corn goddess - hairy one".

Xilonen is from the Nahuatl xilotl (young ear of corn) + nen (one with) — the Hairy One (referring to corn silk). Xilonen is the Aztec goddess of young corn — the tender, immature stage of maize before harvest — and one of the agricultural deities of Mesoamerica. Appears throughout the Aztec codices including the Codex Magliabechiano and the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (c. Central to modern Mexican-American agricultural and feminist art.

Hairy One / young corn (Nahuatl).

The name in its native script.

Xilonen
Transliteration
Xilonen
Pronunciation
/ ʃiːˈloʊ.nɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xilonen stands.

Xilonen 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.

Xilonens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Xilonen (Aztec)
Aztec young corn goddess.

Names connected to Xilonen.

The number behind Xilonen.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xilonen reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.