Tejada
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of tejado
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tejada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 314(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 829
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 314 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tëjädä in PA Panama.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of tejado
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tejada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #38 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 314 | — | Tejada | 96 |
| PH Philippines | #371 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Tejada | 85 |
| PE Peru | #239 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Tejada | 100 |
| US United States | — | 14,903 | 1 in 22K | 16K | Tejada | 351 |
| AR Argentina | #405 | 14,328 | 1 in 3.2K | 14K | Tejada | 81 |
| SV El Salvador | #135 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 829 | — | Tejada | 49 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 20 | Tëjädä | 69 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lidia Gueiler Tejadab. 1921BOPresident of Bolivia (1921-2011)
- Justo Tejadab. 1933ESSpanish footballer (1933-2021)
- Raquel Welchb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1940–2023)
- Alberto Tejadab. 1956PEPeruvian politician and football referee
- Miguel Tejadab. 1974USbaseball player
- Gabriel Torresb. 1977PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer
- Luis Tejadab. 1982PAPanamanian footballer (1982–2024)
- Xiscob. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Marianly Tejadab. 1992DODominican actress and model who is Miss Mundo Dominicana 2011 (born 1992)
- Pablo Marínb. 2003ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,152 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,432 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 14K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.7K | #3,372 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 20 | #177 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #37 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tejada mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of tejado Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tejada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Tejada in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tejada.
- How common is the name Tejada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,903 people named Tejada in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Tejada compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Tejada is the 38th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tejadaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tejada” — the 38th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.