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Indigenous surname · Nahuatl

Tepetl

"hill"

Say it

TEH-petl

Where it comes from

tepētl (hill, mountain)

Meaning of the surname Tepetl

Tepetl is a Nahuatl surname of the indigenous type meaning "hill". It is a regional surname. The most common Nahua surname in the city of Puebla.

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 Tepetl appears as either half of a pair: Tepetl García, López Tepetl. Read how the two-surname system works.

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