Takeru

Takeru (たける, タケル) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Orthography
Takeru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 武, "warrior"
 * 猛, "fierce"
 * 健, "health"
 * 尊, "noble"
 * 岳, "mountain"

Kanji combinations of the name are:
 * 武尊
 * 武瑠
 * 武流
 * 武琉
 * 武留
 * 丈瑠
 * 丈流
 * 丈琉
 * 丈留
 * 尊瑠
 * 尊流
 * 尊琉
 * 尊留

People

 * Takeru Imamura (猛), a Japanese baseball player
 * Takeru Inukai (健), a Japanese politician
 * Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (尊), a Japanese competitive eater
 * Takeru (Sug) (武瑠), a Japanese singer from the rock band Sug
 * Takeru Nagayoshi (たける), a Japanese manga artist
 * Takeru Satoh (健), a Japanese actor, portrays Ryotaro Nogami in tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
 * Takeru Segawa (世川 武尊), Japanese kickboxer
 * Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince

Fictional characters

 * Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman
 * Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles
 * Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi
 * Takeru Danma, a character known as "The Hatter" in Alice in Borderland, played by Nobuaki Kaneko
 * Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist
 * Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride
 * Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American comic book series Witchblade
 * Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends
 * Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki!
 * Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
 * Takeru Shirogane, the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv
 * Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon
 * Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
 * Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers
 * Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games
 * Takeru Tenkūji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost
 * Takeru Tsukumo, a main character in the manga Exoskull Zero
 * Takeru Jakuzure, a character from Garo
 * Takeru Homura, a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
 * Takeru Totsuka, a main character in Kamigami no Asobi

Other uses

 * Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga
 * Takeru, video game developer and publisher
 * Brother Industries Takeru, software distribution mechanism in Japan