Tetsuya Explained
| Tetsuya |
| Pronunciation: | tetsɯja (IPA) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | Different depending on the kanji |
| Region: | Japanese |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Alternative Spelling: | Tetuya (Kunrei-shiki)Tetuya (Nihon-shiki)Tetsuya (Hepburn) |
Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.
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 てつや or katakana テツヤ.
People with the name
- Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
- Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
- , Japanese footballer
- Tetsuya Asano (浅野 哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
- Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
- Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
- Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
- , Japanese shogi player
- Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
- Tetsuya Funatsu (舩津 徹也, born 1987) is a Japanese football player
- 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
- , Japanese footballer
- 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 Kakiuchi (垣内 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
- Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
- , Japanese ballet dancer
- Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
- Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
- , Japanese football manager
- Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
- Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
- , Japanese sumo wrestler
- , Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
- Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
- Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保 哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
- Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- 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, 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 Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
- Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
- , Japanese footballer and manager
- Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
- Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
- Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
- Tetsuya Yamagami (山上 徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese baseball player
- Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
- Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
- , Japanese long-distance runner
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, the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
- Tetsuya Kijiyama, a childhood friend of Torao in the manga series Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy
- Tetsuya Sendo, a 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 Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
- Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series
- Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
- Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from
- Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
- Tetsuya from Yokai Watch
See also
