Zapotec Origin Names

This is a list of names in which the origin is Zapotec. The Zapotec languages are spoken by the Zapotec people of southern Mexico.
gender
usage
origin
Nayeli f Zapotec (Hispanicized), Spanish (Mexican)
Possibly from Zapotec nadxiie lii meaning "I love you" or nayele' meaning "open".
Xiadani f Zapotec
Meaning uncertain, said to mean "the flower that arrived" in Zapotec.
Xquenda f & m Zapotec
From Zapotec guenda "spirit, soul, essence" combined with the possessive prefix x-.
Zyanya f Zapotec
Possibly means "forever, always" in Zapotec. It appears in the novel Aztec (1980) by the American author Gary Jennings.