Meaning of the surname Tecuanhuey
Tecuanhuey is a Nahuatl surname of the indigenous type meaning "great wild beast". It is a regional surname. A Puebla and Tlaxcala surname.
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 Tecuanhuey appears as either half of a pair: Tecuanhuey García, López Tecuanhuey. Read how the two-surname system works.