What Xochitl means
Carochi glosses it plainly as flor. It is the most common Nahuatl element in Mexican given names, and xochi- prefixes dozens of compounds: xochimilco, xochicalli, cempasuchil. Spanish speakers usually say SOH-cheel.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Xochitl
“flower”
Say it
SHOH·cheetl
Classical form
xōchitl (flower)
Names built from Xochitl
2 names on this site use this word.
Places built from Xochitl
- Xochimilco
place of the flower field
soh-chee-MEEL-koh
The Nahuatl words behind the names
Learn twenty of these and most Aztec names decode themselves. Atl is water, tlalli earth, citlalin star, metztli moon, yollotl heart, cuauhtli eagle, xochitl flower.
Back to all Nahuatl and Maya words, or see how they combine in Nahuatl names.