In 1888 the colonial government proposed establishing 3 Indian reservations, with the western one covering Benque Viejo del Carmen Town, Settlement 238 and Settlement 6.[1]
Spelled Xocotes in 1905, it came from a Aztec word xocotl, plural xoxoco [socotl, sosoco) meaning fruit in general; in this particular case the name referred to the spondia trees (native species of drueh) that frequently occured in Succotz which, when bare of foliage, were laden with fruit.[2]
Spelled Soccoths in the 1955 DOS map.
Spelled San Jose Succoths in the 1980 census. https://sib.org.bz/wp-content/uploads/1985Abstractof_Statistics.pdf