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Xilonen Xilonen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shee-LOH-nen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Aztec young corn goddess - Hairy One"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Nahuatl)

A name that means "aztec young corn goddess - hairy one".

Xilonen is from the Nahuatl xilotl (young ear of corn) + nen (one with) — the Hairy One (referring to corn silk). Xilonen is the Aztec goddess of young corn — the tender, immature stage of maize before harvest — and one of the agricultural deities of Mesoamerica. Appears throughout the Aztec codices including the Codex Magliabechiano and the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (c. Central to modern Mexican-American agricultural and feminist art.

Hairy One / young corn (Nahuatl).

The name in its native script.

Xilonen
Transliteration
Xilonen
Pronunciation
/ ʃiːˈloʊ.nɛn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Xilonen stands.

Xilonen 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.

Xilonens before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Xilonen (Aztec)
Aztec young corn goddess.

Names connected to Xilonen.

The number behind Xilonen.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xilonen reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.