Entry № 4735 · Mayan origin

Ixchel Ixchel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-shel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mayan
Meaning
"Rainbow lady, moon goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Mayan)

A name that means "rainbow lady, moon goddess".

Ixchel (or Ix Chel) is the Mayan jaguar goddess of the moon, midwifery, medicine, and weaving — among the most important deities in the Maya pantheon. Her temples were on the island of Cozumel.

Ixchel is rising in Mexico and Central America.

Moon, midwifery, medicine. The Mayan jaguar goddess.

The name in its native script.

Ixchel
Transliteration
Ix Chel
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.ʃɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ixchel stands.

Ixchel 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.

Ixchels before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ixchel
Mayan moon goddess.
Mayan mythology

Names connected to Ixchel.

The number behind Ixchel.

7

The Seeker

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