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Pronunciation
  
Japanese: [tetsu͍ja]

Word/name
  
Japanese

Related names
  
TetsuoTatsuya

Gender
  
Male

Region of origin
  
Japanese

Meaning
  
Different depending on the kanji

Tetsuya (てつや, テツヤ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Contents

Possible writings

Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

  • 哲也, "philosophy, to be"
  • 鉄也, "iron, to be"
  • 哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
  • 徹也, "devotion, to be"
  • 徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
  • 鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"

    • The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

    People

  • Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
  • Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
  • Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
  • Tetsuya Endo (徹哉), Japanese anime director
  • Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
  • Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
  • Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
  • Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
  • Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
  • Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer
  • Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter
  • Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
  • Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer
  • Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
  • Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
  • Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
  • Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
  • Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
  • Tetsuya Minagawa (哲也, born 1979), Japanese economist, industrialist and innovation expert
  • Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
  • Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
  • Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
  • Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
  • Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
  • Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
  • Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
  • Tetsuya Shimizu (清水 哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
  • Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, born a1e96 1), Japanese politician
  • Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
  • Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
  • Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
  • Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
  • Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
  • Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
  • Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher

    • Fictional characters

  • Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
  • Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi
  • Tetsuya Kuroko, protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
  • Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
  • Tetsuya Sendo, friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
  • Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
  • Tetsuya Watarigani, recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
  • Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
  • Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle

    • References

    Tetsuya Wikipedia
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