Most people in Taiwan surnamed Ting live or hail from Taihsi, descendants of a Ting clan which moved from Ch'ungchow County in Fukien to Taiwan over two hundred years ago. During the Japanese Occupation, a few Huangs, Yaos, and Wangs settled in Taihsi, but today over half of the population still goes by the surname of Ting.
台西是全台灣省丁姓人口最多的地方，約佔台西人口的半數強。二百多年前，由福建泉州跟著鄭成功來台的丁氏家族，全數在此落腳。