Tetsuya

Tetsuya
Origin
Pronunciation	tetsɯja (IPA)
Gender	Male
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different depending on the kanji
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Alternative spelling	Tetuya (Kunrei-shiki) Tetuya (Nihon-shiki) Tetsuya (Hepburn)

Tetsuya is a masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Tetsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

哲也, "philosophy, to be"
鉄也, "iron, to be"
哲哉, "philosophy, alas"
徹也, "devotion, to be"
徹矢, "penetrate, arrow"
鉄弥, "iron, increasingly"

The name can also be written in hiragana てつや or katakana テツヤ.

People with the name

Tetsuya (dancer) (born 1981), Japanese dancer
Tetsuya (musician) (born 1969), Japanese musician
Tetsuya Abe (阿部哲也, born 1983), Japanese footballer
Tetsuya Asano (浅野哲也, born 1967) is a former Japanese football player and manager
Tetsuya Chiba (てつや, born 1939), Japanese manga artist
Tetsuya Chikushi (哲也, 1935–2008), Japanese newscaster
Tetsuya Endo (disambiguation), multiple people
Tetsuya Enomoto (哲也, born 1983), Japanese football player
Tetsuya Fujii (哲也), a Japanese astronomer
Tetsuya Fujimori (藤森哲也, born 1987), Japanese shogi player
Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (哲也, 1920–1998), Japanese severe storms researcher
Tetsuya Funatsu (舩津徹也, born 1987) is a Japanese football player
Tetsuya Harada (哲也, born 1970), Japanese former GP motorcycle racer
Tetsuya Hibino (哲也, born 1974), Japanese professional drifting driver
Tetsuya Ichimura (哲也, born 1930), Japanese photographer
Tetsuya Ishida (徹也, 1973–2005), Japanese painter
Tetsuya Ito (伊藤哲也, born 1970), Japanese footballer
Tetsuya Iwanaga (哲哉, born 1970), Japanese voice actor
Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer) (徹也, born 1963), Japanese drummer
Tetsuya Kakihara (徹也, born 1982), Japanese voice actor
Tetsuya Kakiuchi (垣内哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder
Tetsuya Kiyonari (哲也, born 1961), Japanese professional Go player
Tetsuya Koishi (小石哲也, born 1990), Japanese footballer
Tetsuya Kokubo (小窪哲也, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
Tetsuya Komuro (哲哉, born 1958), Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
Tetsuya Kumakawa (熊川哲也, born 1972), Japanese ballet dancer
Tetsuya Makita (哲也, born 1984), Japanese actor
Tetsuya Matoyama (哲也, born 1970), Japanese professional baseball catcher
Tetsuya Matsumoto (松本哲也, born 1984), Japanese baseball player
Tetsuya Mizuguchi (哲也, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and producer
Tetsuya Murayama (村山哲也, born 1974), Japanese football manager
Tetsuya Naito (哲也, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
Tetsuya Nakashima (哲也, born 1959), Japanese film director
Nishikigi Tetsuya (錦木徹也, born 1990), Japanese sumo wrestler
Tetsuya Noda (野田哲也, born 1940), Japanese artist, printmaker and educator
Tetsuya Nomura (哲也, born 1970), Japanese video game director
Tetsuya Ōkubo (大久保哲哉, born 1980) is a Japanese football player
Tetsuya Ota (哲也, born 1959), Japanese racecar driver
Tetsuya Saito (斉藤哲也, born 1983), Japanese ice hockey player
Tetsuya Saruwatari (哲也, born 1958), Japanese manga artist
Tetsuya Shibata (徹也, born 1973), video game music composer
Tetsuya Shimizu (清水哲也, born 1983), Japanese professional wrestler
Tetsuya Shikawa 鉄也, Japanese politician
Tetsuya Shiroo (哲彌, born 1948), Japanese yakuza
Tetsuya Takahashi (哲哉, born 1966), Japanese video game creator
Tetsuya Takeda (鉄矢), Japanese singer and actor
Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, born 1974) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Tetsuya Tanaka (田中哲也, born 1965) is a Japanese racing driver
Tetsuya Totsuka (戸塚哲也, born 1961), Japanese footballer and manager
Tetsuya Utsumi (内海哲也, born 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball player
Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也), the only suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
Tetsuya Yamaguchi (山口鉄也, born 1983), Japanese baseball player
Tetsuya Yamamoto (山本哲哉, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
Tetsuya Yanagisawa (テツヤ), Japanese anime director
Tetsuya Yoneda (哲也, born 1938), Japanese professional baseball pitcher
Tetsuya Yoroizaka (鎧坂哲哉, born 1990), Japanese long-distance runner

Fictional characters

Tetsuya Azuma (鉄也), protagonist of the 1973 anime series Casshan and of the 2004 film Casshern
Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi) (哲也), in the manga and anime series Fushigi Yūgi
Tetsuya Kuroko, the protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
Tetsuya Kijiyama, a childhood friend of Torao in the manga series Gender-Swap at the Delinquent Academy
Tetsuya Sendo, a friend of Ritsu Kasanoda in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
Tetsuya Takahashi, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), the protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
Tetsuya Watarigani, a recurring character in the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Tetsuya Yuuki (哲也), in the manga and anime series Ace of Diamond
Tetsuya, Japanese name of Tyson from Pokémon: Advanced Battle
Tetsuya Yano, a character from Choujuu Sentai Liveman
Tetsuya from Yokai Watch