The population of contemporary Ding has reached 5.76 million.
Ding surname, one of Chinese surnames, is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname, and its ancestor is Ding Gongji.
Ding's surname ranks 177th in the Song version of Hundred Family Names, and the population of contemporary Ding's surname has reached 5.76 million, making it the 48th surname in China, accounting for about .43% of the national population.
Famous figures include Ding Hong, Ding Gong, the Eastern Han Confucian classics scholar, Ding Yunpeng, the painter of the Ming Dynasty, Ding Baozhen, Ding Richang and Ding Ruchang in the Qing Dynasty.
Population distribution
There are many sources of Ding surname, but generally speaking, Shandong is its earliest birthplace, and later it developed into the largest Jiyang county with Ding surname in the local area, and Shandong Ding surname is also the main source of migration and broadcasting in various places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ding lived mainly in present-day Shandong, Jiangsu and Henan. At the same time, a small number of Ding lived in Hebei, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Hubei and Guangdong provinces.
During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the war in the north led to the frequent migration of Ding surname, which can be described as the prosperous period of Ding surname's broadcast and migration in history. Sun Kuang of Sun Wu in the Three Kingdoms changed his surname to Ding, which added a new branch to the development of Ding, and southern Jiangsu and most parts of Zhejiang became the main areas for the reproduction of this branch of Ding. During this period, the Ding family still thrived around Shandong and Henan, and in addition, there were Ding immigrants in Jiangxi and Anhui. In the Tang Dynasty, Ding in Jiyang lived in Fujian.
This Ding family moved to Quanzhou, Guangdong and other places in the late Tang Dynasty. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, descendants of Ding Wei Song dynasty, a Jiangsu native, lived in Yazhou (now northwest of Ya County, Guangdong Province) and Guangzhou. Ding Yunwen and Ding Zhaoxian started in Chaozhou and Meizhou, Guangdong, respectively, and were regarded as the local ancestors. In the Qing Dynasty, Ding, who lived in Fujian and Guangdong, moved to Taiwan Province, and then moved to Thailand, Singapore and the United States.
At this point, the Ding surname, which has spread all over the country since the Song Dynasty, has gradually extended its branch to all parts of the world. Today, the Ding surname is mostly in Jiangsu, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Shandong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Jilin, Liaoning and other provinces. The Ding surname in the above eleven provinces accounts for about 72% of the population of the Han nationality in China. Ding is the 46th most popular surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about .44% of the Han population in China.