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Originally Posted by jasg224

I'm all for native names, in particular here where it's all around us. There's actually a professional american football team called the Mexicas from Mexico City. There's also an Aztecs team for a university in Puebla, though that university was founded as the Mexico City College by a group of people from the US, which makes sense.


If you're going for a native identity:
- Tenochcas evoques the great city of Tenochtitlán, the sprawling hub of the Mexica empire which was built on a lake and was home to hundreds of thousands of people before the arrival of the Spanish.
- Tlatoques (chiefs) or Tlatoanis (those who speak, these words are somewhat synonyms) is what the leaders of this time period were called
- Or perhaps figures important in the culture: names related to corn, jaguars, eagles, the sun.


Defining a single culture in Mesoamerica is hard because it wasn't all that homogenous, but rather a blend of their own beliefs and those they adopted from Toltecan, Mayan, and other cultures present in central Mexico. Anyway, sorry if it's too much text, and hopefully this helps you. Also if you want to keep the Aztecs, feel free to do so; I think we've gotten used to the term in popular culture and it's not derogatory in the way other popular names for native groups are (Chichimeca, Huichol, Popoloca, etc).

Thanks, this is really good to know, and a helpful list of names that I may use some for other teams in the region going forward. I think I'll use Mexico City Tenochcas as I like the sound of that, and the meaning as you've helpfully outlined.