Entry № 6819 · Nahuatl origin

Meztli Meztli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEST-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Nahuatl
Meaning
"The moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the moon".

Meztli means the moon — the Aztec deity of the night sky. It carries serenity, mystery and gentle light.

The moon — a Nahuatl name.

The name in its native script.

Meztli
Transliteration
Meztli
Pronunciation
/ ˈmes.tli /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meztli stands.

Meztli 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.

Meztlis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Meztli.

The number behind Meztli.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meztli reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.