Tetsuya

Tetsuya (てつや, テツヤ) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Tetsuya

Pronunciation	Japanese: [tetsu͍ja]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different depending on the kanji
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Tetsuo Tatsuya

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 or katakana.

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 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 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 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 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 Totsuka (戸塚 哲也, born 1961), Japanese footballer and manager
• Tetsuya Wakuda (哲也, born 1959), Japanese-born Australian chef
• Tetsuya Watari (哲也, born 1941), Japanese stage, film, and television actor
• 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, protagonist of the manga and anime series Kuroko's Basketball
• Tetsuya Tsurugi (鉄也), protagonist of manga and anime series Great Mazinger
• Tetsuya Sendo, 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 Watarigani, 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

See also

• 4343 Tetsuya, a main-belt asteroid
• Legendary Gambler Tetsuya, a gambling manga
• Tetsuya's, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia