Meaning of the surname Xicoténcatl
Xicoténcatl is a Nahuatl surname of the indigenous type meaning "person of the bumblebee place". It is a regional surname. The most common Nahua surname in Cuautlancingo, Puebla; from the Tlaxcaltec lord Xicoténcatl who fought Cortés.
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 Xicoténcatl appears as either half of a pair: Xicoténcatl García, López Xicoténcatl. Read how the two-surname system works.