Tej Surname

91,027th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,260 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Tunisia

Tej Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tej Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India4,3181:177,64410,894
Pakistan2741:651,98510,074
Morocco2391:144,25125,171
Slovakia1461:36,5516,716
United States551:6,590,162310,708
Tunisia521:11,7431,936
England341:1,638,76668,634
United Arab Emirates301:305,40920,323
France181:3,690,151224,666
Qatar161:147,37516,023
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Guyana61:127,0377,965
Germany51:16,101,092397,699
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Croatia41:1,057,15157,892
Czechia41:2,658,367127,801
China31:455,773,85521,925
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
Russia31:48,041,019639,186
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Colombia21:23,887,03632,612
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Wallis and Futuna11:13,610185
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Libya11:6,243,9746,186
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
American Samoa11:55,7583,072
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422

Tej (155,618) may also be a first name.

Tej Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tej Come From? nationality or country of origin

Tej (Bengali: তেজ, Hindi: तेज, Marathi: तेज, Oriya: େତଜ, Tibetan: ཏེཇ་) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Tej click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Tej? popularity and diffusion

It is the 91,027th most frequently held family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 1,385,465 people. The last name Tej occurs predominantly in Asia, where 89 percent of Tej reside; 87 percent reside in South Asia and 82 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 6,750th most frequent first name world-wide. It is borne by 155,618 people.

It is most commonly occurring in India, where it is carried by 4,318 people, or 1 in 177,644. In India Tej is mostly concentrated in: Uttar Pradesh, where 61 percent are found, Andhra Pradesh, where 15 percent are found and Telangana, where 5 percent are found. Excluding India it exists in 44 countries. It is also common in Pakistan, where 5 percent are found and Morocco, where 5 percent are found.

Tej Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Tej are 33.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 80% registered to vote for the political party.

Tej earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 2.13% less than the national average, earning $42,232 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Teja8619,240/
Teje8615,956/
Tejo866,497/
Teji866,090/
Tedj86221/
Thej8644/
Tejc8643/
Tiej864/
Tejy864/
Tejj862/
Teyj862/
Teej861/
Tejč861/
Tezj861/
Tejt861/
Teaj861/
Te8053,305/
Tj801,604/
Tejie753,865/
Theja752,238/
Teidj75171/
Tehji75149/
Tejio7597/
Tejiy7582/
Tejah7554/
Tieja7552/
Tejee7550/
Tejeh7545/
Teješ7522/
Teije7519/
Hteej7516/
Teeja7515/
Tejih7513/
Theje759/
Tejoo758/
Teejo758/
Thejo756/
Tejaa754/
Tiejo753/
Teeji753/
Tejed752/
Tteji752/
Tieje752/
Toejo752/
Tejch751/
Tejii751/
Tejtz751/
Theji751/
Tejez751/
Teijs751/
Thedj751/
Toeji751/
Tteje751/
Teujs751/
Taj67222,257/
The67151,749/
Toe67124,826/
Teh6768,604/
Tee6763,002/
Tie6742,702/
Tep6742,575/
Tec6728,769/
Tea6727,788/
Tae6724,677/
Tei6721,578/
Ter6717,958/
Tes6714,945/
Tey6714,082/
Tye6713,557/
Toj6713,071/
Tez674,884/
Tue674,002/
Tex673,747/
Tuj673,182/
Teu672,429/
Tet672,377/
Ted67860/
Tje67751/
Tejaya67650/
Thj67268/
Tejová67109/
Taheij6792/
Tehjah6787/
Tte6769/
Tij6769/
Tjh6763/
Tehjeh6753/
Teß6739/
Ttj6739/
Hte6725/
Tejova6716/
Teč6715/
Tyj6714/
Tõe6712/
Tjd6712/
Htj6711/
Dte6711/
Tge6710/
Teš6710/
Dtj677/
Tejstø676/
Tjx676/
Tjz676/
Tjj675/
Tjc674/
Tiejee673/
Thejaa673/
Teyije673/
Tejaia673/
Theije672/
Tejaha672/
Teï672/
Tejadd671/
Tejaja671/
Tejeau671/
Tiejie671/
Tée671/
Teí671/
Teį671/
Tehjih671/
Tejech671/
Tejsch671/
Teejee671/
Tejowa671/
Teejah671/
Tehejh671/
Dteeji671/

Tej Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tej in the Bengali language
তেজteja-
Tej in the Marathi language
तेजteja-
Tej in the Hindi language
तेजteja99.64
तेज्tej0
Tej in the Oriya language
େତଜetaja98.8
Tej in the Tibetan language
ཏེཇ་teja61.94
ཏེཇཱ་teja20.15
ཏེཆtecha3.73
ཏེཤ་tesha2.99
ཏེཆ་techa1.49
ཏེས་1.49
ཏེཤི་teshi0.75
ཀྲེགས་trek0.75
ཏིཤ་tisha0.75
ཏེརཱཇ་teraja0.75
ཏེཇteja0.75
ཏེསི་tesi0.75
ཏིཇཱ་tija0.75
ཏེཇེ་tejé0.75
ཏེཆ་་techa0.75
ཏཆེ་taché0.75
ཏེཇི་teji0.75

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Footnotes

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tej
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