Epcoatl.

Headword: 
Epcoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a divine force of rain, another name for Tlaloc; also, a personal name (attested as male) taken by a range of people

Orthographic Variants: 
Epcuvatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

Epcoatl was also another name for the rain deity, Tlaloc. ("nom divin, autre nom ou titre de Tlaloc")
Wimmer 2004, quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/epcoatl.

A famous Epcoatl was a boy who died at Pantitlan, a special place in the lake where child sacrifices were made to the rain deities; his special ritual clothing was decorated with mussel shells. Sahagún 2,43 = Sahagún 1927, 57.
Wimmer 2004, quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/epcoatl.

ytoca epcuvatl = named Epcoatl (male, husband of Centehua) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 154–155.

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