It means the painted face or the blighted face (dirty). It is derived from the Nahuatl word Tlapan, which means painting or tizne. Name given to a member of an indigenous Mexican ethnicity called me?phaa, from the state of Guerrero. Name of the language that this same people speaks.
Name of a Mexican Aboriginal village, although they are called 'mbo me phaa' ( "habitant of the Phaa" ), since the Aztec voice 'tlapaneco' would be a derogatory ( "painted face, dirty face")