Tejada

At the 2020 census, 16,443 Americans bore the surname Tejada — 2,152nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,443
Rank: 2,152nd
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Tejada.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tejada described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 90.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.4%
White, not Hispanic 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Tejada

Luis Tejada (1982–2024)Panamanian footballer
Luis García Meza Tejada (1929–2018)Bolivian dictator
Justo Tejada (1933–2021)Spanish footballer
Harold Tejada (born 1997)Colombian cyclist
Miguel Tejada (born 1974)baseball player

People named Tejada with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tejada

Tejeda

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.