Editing Tonantzin (section)

==Modern usage==
Tonantzin is sometimes used as a [[female]] [[given name]]; [[Native California]]n actress [[Tonantzin Carmelo]] is an example. Tona, Tonzi, Toni, Nantzin, and Nancy are possible nicknames.

Tonantzín (spelled with an accent on the final syllable) plays an inspirational role in the [[Sandra Cisneros]] short story "Little Miracles, Kept Promises", from her collection ''Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991).  The story includes Cisneros's portrait of the artist as a young Chicana.  

In the comic series [[Love and Rockets (comics)|Love and Rockets]] by [[Gilbert Hernandez]] and [[Jaime Hernandez]], Tonantzin is the name of a central character in Gilbert's world of Palomar. The character is often linked to the Aztec goddess.