Tejero

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/texeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tejero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.3K
  • ARArgentina1 in 60K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.

Sources 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.

Where Tejero is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Tejero54
ES Spain#39711,6871 in 4.3K12KTejero149
AR Argentina—7551 in 60K755Tejero54
US United States—3721 in 894K395Tejero124
CO Colombia—≈260 est.≈1 in 186K—Tejero29
UY Uruguay—431 in 79K43—6
QA Qatar—≈15 est.≈1 in 158K—Tejero6

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tejero is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Têjêrö, Tëjërö

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

18001850190019502000Alfonso García Tejero, b. 1818Francisco García, b. 1825Delhy Tejero, b. 1904Antonio Tejero, b. 1932María Rubio Tejero, b. 1934Fernando Tejero, b. 1967Héctor Tejero, b. 1981Sandra Tejero, b. 1989Álvaro Tejero, b. 1996

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)

FormalEstimado/a Tejero,Dear Tejero, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tejero,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Tejero
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—12K#474
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12K#474
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—755—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020395#55,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010372#55,255
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000281#65,862
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—43—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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?
A machine transcription gives /texeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tejero have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Tejero in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tejero.
Where is Tejero most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tejero is densest in Spain — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for 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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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 2026-10-10.

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