Possibly derived from Nahuatl xihuitl, which can mean "turquoise, grass, greenish thing", "year, comet", or "flame, fire", cuēitl "skirt", and -tzin, a diminutive or reverential suffix. A famous bearer of this name is Xiuhcuetzin, who was a Queen of Tenochtitlan.
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