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Indigenous surname · Nahuatl

Xolalpa

"on the town plot"

Say it

shoh-LAHL-pah

Built from

xolalplot of land, street+-panon, at

Meaning of the surname Xolalpa

Xolalpa is a Nahuatl surname of the indigenous type meaning "on the town plot". It is a regional surname. Common in Puebla and the State of Mexico.

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

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