MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Teju mean?
Teju is an affectionate form built on Tej, from Sanskrit tejas. The source word ranges over light, splendour and energy, giving this short name a luminous association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तेजू
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तेजु
Letter-by-letter: teju
4,429 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Teju in Indian usage
19,165 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 7,644 records (39.9%).
- Recorded as male: 11,521 records (60.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 775 |
| 1940s | 1,797 |
| 1950s | 2,801 |
| 1960s | 3,811 |
| 1970s | 3,890 |
| 1980s | 3,504 |
| 1990s | 2,409 |
| Other decades | 178 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,758 |
| Bihar | 2,927 |
| Rajasthan | 2,890 |
| Jharkhand | 2,694 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,694 |
| Haryana | 1,664 |
| Punjab | 822 |
| Karnataka | 239 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 230 |
| Other states | 247 |
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
- Monier-Williams, tejas, p. 454,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.