Tejero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
/texeɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tejero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K
- MXMexico≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
11,687 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tejero 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.
11,687 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tejero is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( V-gip ) Ref.: Etxba Eib ; Elexp Berg . Tejedor. " Da gero, arilddu esaten jakon, da matazak ein, dda gero tejerua or zeuen " Elexp Berg. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alfonso García Tejerob. 1818ESSpanish writer (1818-1890)
- Francisco Garcíab. 1825ESnot in their usual nameSpanish priest (1825-1909)
- Delhy Tejerob. 1904ESSpanish painter (1904-1968)
- Antonio Tejerob. 1932ESSpanish Lieutenant-Colonel (1932–2026)
- María Rubio Tejerob. 1934MXMexican actress (1934–2018)
- Fernando Tejerob. 1967ESSpanish actor
- Héctor Tejerob. 1981ESSpanish politician
- Sandra Tejerob. 1989ESSpanish actress and theatrical director
- Álvaro Tejerob. 1996ESSpanish association football player
- María Nieves Tejero MaesoESSpanish politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #474 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #474 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 755 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 139 | #1,480 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 43 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tejero mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tejero?
- In Spanish /texeɾo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Tejero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Tejero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tejero.
- Where is Tejero most common?
- Tejero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tejero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,687 people named Tejero, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tejero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Tejero is the 397th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tejeroThe 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, “Tejero” — the 397th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.