MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Teja mean?
Teja is a Punjabi personal-name formation around tej, radiance. The underlying Sanskrit noun tejas also carries splendour and vital power.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तेजा
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਤੇਜਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Teja in Indian usage
24,341 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,294 records (13.5%).
- Recorded as male: 21,047 records (86.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,791 |
| 1940s | 3,874 |
| 1950s | 5,022 |
| 1960s | 5,482 |
| 1970s | 3,707 |
| 1980s | 2,470 |
| 1990s | 1,564 |
| Other decades | 431 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 9,250 |
| Punjab | 7,516 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,990 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,491 |
| Haryana | 1,332 |
| Bihar | 678 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 643 |
| Jharkhand | 133 |
| Other states | 308 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001