Fun Facts About the Name Mayahuel
- 24 babies named Mayahuel: U.S. records list 24 babies given the name Mayahuel from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mayahuel Mean?
Mayahuel is a Nahuatl name and means "she of the maguey (agave)." It belongs to the Mexica (Aztec) goddess of the maguey, the spiny plant whose sap was fermented into octli, the drink the Spanish later called pulque, and whose fibers were used for cloth and rope.
The name rests on the Nahuatl word mayatl, "maguey." The form mayahuel is also recorded as a common noun for a particular kind of maguey, so the divine name may simply be the plant word applied to its goddess, rather than a compound with a separate second meaning. Some accounts propose that the ending reflects the Nahuatl element huēl, "good, well," which would give a sense like "good maguey," but this division is not securely documented. What is clear is the link to the maguey itself; the "she" wording is a customary way of rendering the goddess's name in English, not a literal grammatical element of the Nahuatl word.
Mayahuel Name History & Origins
Mayahuel is the name of the Mexica goddess of the maguey and of the sacred drink made from it. The best-known myth about her is preserved in colonial-era sources that record Mexica tradition, including the Nahuatl Leyenda de los Soles and the French Histoire du Mechique. In that story she lived in the sky with her grandmother, a tzitzimitl (a star demon). The god Quetzalcoatl came to the sky, and the two fell in love and fled to earth, where they took the form of a tree. When the grandmother and other tzitzimitl came down and recognized them, the tree was split apart. Mayahuel was killed, and the maguey grew from her buried bones, giving humans the plant and the drink made from it.
She was also a fertility figure. Mexica sources describe her as a goddess with many breasts, and she was paired with the god Patecatl as consort; the Centzon Totochtin, or "Four Hundred Rabbits," the gods of drunkenness, were said to be her children. She was one of several deities associated with pulque, and images of her appear in pre-Hispanic and colonial-era religious art.
As a personal name, Mayahuel is used in Mexico and among Mexican and Mexican American families, usually with awareness of the goddess and the maguey connection. It also appears in modern retellings of Aztec myth and in the names of mezcal and agave products, where the mythic reference is intentional.
How Popular is the Name Mayahuel?
Mayahuel has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #14,328 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #14,328 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #14,546 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #14,698 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #14,506 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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