Teju

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Taj in US United States, PK Pakistan, AU Australia and 12 more, Tej in IN India, MY Malaysia, ES Spain and 8 more and Teja in SI Slovenia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Teju is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Amharic given name374 records spelled Teju7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, United States

  Also written Taju, ታጁ, ጠጁ, ተጁ, Taaju

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Teju is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Alternative form of tegu (“South American lizard”).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, alternative form of teiú

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dsb, locative singular of tej

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sc, mourning

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Tikko, pavisam nesen; nupat (1)

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Visdrīzākajā laikā; tūliņ

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1919–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Teju?

We estimate roughly 7.4 thousand people bear Teju (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Teju have the most bearers?

Teju is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled tej.

Where is Teju most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Teju is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 734 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Teju compared with other names?

In India, Teju is the 514th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Teju a male or female name?

Teju is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.