Meaning of the surname Tlaxcalteca
Tlaxcalteca is a Nahuatl surname of the indigenous type meaning "person from Tlaxcala". It is an uncommon surname in Mexico. A demonym that became a surname in Puebla and Tlaxcala.
Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.
In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Tlaxcalteca appears as either half of a pair: Tlaxcalteca García, López Tlaxcalteca. Read how the two-surname system works.