Ting (丁)
A Taiwanese surname.
丁 Ting
- Zhuyin
- ㄉㄧㄥ
- Pinyin
- dīng
- Wade-Giles
- Ting
- Further spellings of 丁
- Ding
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Ting
- Hakka (Sixian)
- den²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 62nd most common surname, roughly 0.21% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
The fourth of the Heavenly Stems; 'adult man'; 'person, member of a household'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Duke Ding of Qi (齊丁公), a son of Jiang Taigong; the duke's descendants took his posthumous name as their surname, and further lines descend from Duke Ding of Song. Hall name (堂號): 濟陽堂.
Saying it 我姓丁 — wǒ xìng dīng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄥ), "my family name is 丁"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).