Fastest Growth Ethnic Groups in the U.S.*

All figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau Report.

The Census Bureau defines ancestry as a person's ethnic origin, racial heritage, descent, or "roots," which may reflect their place of birth, place of birth of parents or ancestors, and ethnic identities that have evolved within the United States.

A few notes about the data:

Some ancestries are general may encompass several ancestries not listed separately (i.e., African American, White).

People who reported two ancestries were included once in each category.

"NS" = Not statistically different from zero at the 90-percent confidence level

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	1990		2000		Change, 1990 to 2000
Ancestry	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent

Total population	248,709,873	100.0	281,421,906	100.0	32,712,033	13.2

Latin American *	43,521	-	250,052	0.1	206,531	474.6
African *	245,845	0.1	1,183,316	0.4	937,471	381.3
European *	466,718	0.2	1,968,696	0.7	1,501,978	321.8
Western European *	42,409	-	125,300	-	82,891	195.5
Brazilian	65,875	-	181,076	0.1	115,201	174.9
Asian Indian	569,338	0.2	1,546,703	0.5	977,365	171.7
Pakistani	99,974	-	253,193	0.1	153,219	153.3
Northern European *	65,993	-	163,657	0.1	97,664	148.0
Albanian	47,710	-	113,661	-	65,951	138.2
Honduran	116,635	-	266,848	0.1	150,213	128.8
Asian *	107,172	-	238,960	0.1	131,788	123.0
Hispanic *	1,113,259	0.4	2,451,109	0.9	1,337,850	120.2
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	76,270	-	164,738	0.1	88,468	116.0
White *	1,799,711	0.7	3,834,122	1.4	2,034,411	113.0
Guyanese	81,665	-	162,425	0.1	80,760	98.9
Vietnamese	535,825	0.2	1,029,420	0.4	493,595	92.1
Guatemalan	241,559	0.1	463,502	0.2	221,943	91.9
Haitian 1, 2	289,521	0.1	548,199	0.2	258,678	89.3
Egyptian	78,574	-	142,832	0.1	64,258	81.8
Peruvian	161,866	0.1	292,991	0.1	131,125	81.0
Nigerian 1, 2	91,499	-	164,691	0.1	73,192	80.0
Dominican 1, 2	505,690	0.2	908,531	0.3	402,841	79.7
Jamaican 1, 2	435,024	0.2	736,513	0.3	301,489	69.3
Colombian	351,717	0.1	583,986	0.2	232,269	66.0
Hmong	84,823	-	140,528	-	55,705	65.7
Slavic	76,923	-	127,136	-	50,213	65.3
Ecuadorian 1	197,374	0.1	322,965	0.1	125,591	63.6
American *	12,395,999	5.0	20,188,305	7.2	7,792,306	62.9
Arab *	127,364	0.1	205,822	0.1	78,458	61.6
Salvadoran	499,153	0.2	802,743	0.3	303,590	60.8
Mexican 1, 2	11,580,038	4.7	18,382,291	6.5	6,802,253	58.7
Taiwanese 1, 2	192,973	0.1	293,568	0.1	100,595	52.1
Chinese	1,505,229	0.6	2,271,562	0.8	766,333	50.9
Cambodian 2	134,955	0.1	197,093	0.1	62,138	46.0
Filipino	1,450,512	0.6	2,116,478	0.8	665,966	45.9
Iranian	235,521	0.1	338,266	0.1	102,745	43.6
Korean 1, 2	836,987	0.3	1,190,353	0.4	353,366	42.2
Slovene	124,437	0.1	176,691	0.1	52,254	42.0
Turkish	83,850	-	117,575	-	33,725	40.2
Czechoslovakian	315,285	0.1	441,403	0.2	126,118	40.0
Puerto Rican	1,955,323	0.8	2,652,598	0.9	697,275	35.7
Panamanian	88,649	-	119,497	-	30,848	34.8
Hawaiian	256,081	0.1	334,858	0.1	78,777	30.8
Israeli	81,677	-	106,839	-	25,162	30.8
Thai 1	112,117	-	146,577	0.1	34,460	30.7
Nicaraguan	177,077	0.1	230,358	0.1	53,281	30.1
Cuban	859,739	0.3	1,097,594	0.4	237,855	27.7
Yugoslavian	257,986	0.1	328,547	0.1	70,561	27.4
Armenian	308,096	0.1	385,488	0.1	77,392	25.1
Laotian	146,947	0.1	179,866	0.1	32,919	22.4
Ukrainian 1, 2	740,723	0.3	892,922	0.3	152,199	20.5
Canadian	549,990	0.2	638,548	0.2	88,558	16.1
Norwegian 2	3,869,395	1.6	4,477,725	1.6	608,330	15.7
Lebanese 1, 2	394,180	0.2	440,279	0.2	46,099	11.7
Syrian	129,606	0.1	142,897	0.1	13,291	10.3
Japanese	1,004,622	0.4	1,103,325	0.4	98,703	9.8
Other ancestries	3,989,728	1.6	4,380,380	1.6	390,652	9.8
French Canadian 1, 2	2,167,127	0.9	2,349,684	0.8	182,557	8.4
Spanish	2,024,004	0.8	2,187,144	0.8	163,140	8.1
Italian 1, 2	14,664,189	5.9	15,638,348	5.6	974,159	6.6
African American * 1, 2	23,750,256	9.5	24,903,412	8.8	1,153,156	4.9
Greek	1,110,292	0.4	1,153,295	0.4	43,003	3.9
Portuguese	1,148,857	0.5	1,173,691	0.4	24,834	2.2
Serbian	116,795	-	140,337	-	235,422	0.2
Romanian	365,531	0.1	367,278	0.1	1,747	(NS)
Czech	1,296,369	0.5	1,258,452	0.4	-37,917	-2.9
British	1,119,140	0.4	1,085,718	0.4	-33,422	-3.0
Polish 1, 2	9,366,051	3.8	8,977,235	3.2	-388,816	-4.2
Finnish	658,854	0.3	623,559	0.2	-35,295	-5.4
West Indian *	159,167	0.1	147,222	0.1	-11,945	-7.5
Belgian	380,403	0.2	348,531	0.1	-31,872	-8.4
Scottish	5,393,581	2.2	4,890,581	1.7	-503,000	-9.3
American Indian *	8,689,344	3.5	7,876,568	2.8	-812,776	-9.4
Russian	2,951,373	1.2	2,652,214	0.9	-299,159	-10.1
Hungarian	1,582,302	0.6	1,398,702	0.5	-183,600	-11.6
Danish	1,634,648	0.7	1,430,897	0.5	-203,751	-12.5
Swiss	1,045,492	0.4	911,502	0.3	-133,990	-12.8
Welsh	2,033,893	0.8	1,753,794	0.6	-280,099	-13.8
Swedish	4,680,863	1.9	3,998,310	1.4	-682,553	-14.6
Austrian	864,783	0.3	730,336	0.3	-134,447	-15.5
Pennsylvania German	305,841	0.1	255,807	0.1	-50,034	-16.4
Spaniard	360,858	0.1	299,948	0.1	-60,910	-16.9
Lithuanian	811,865	0.3	659,992	0.2	-151,873	-18.7
French	10,320,656	4.1	8,309,666	3.0	-2,010,990	-19.5
Irish 1	38,735,539	15.6	30,524,799	10.8	-8,210,740	-21.2
Scotch-Irish	5,617,773	2.3	4,319,232	1.5	-1,298,541	-23.1
English	32,651,788	13.1	24,509,692	8.7	-8,142,096	-24.9
German 1	57,947,171	23.3	42,841,569	15.2	-15,105,602	-26.1
Dutch	6,226,339	2.5	4,541,770	1.6	-1,684,569	-27.1
Croatian 1	544,270	0.2	374,241	0.1	-170,029	-31.2
United States *	643,561	0.3	404,328	0.1	-239,233	-37.2
Scandinavian	678,880	0.3	425,099	0.2	-253,781	-37.4
Slovak 1	1,882,897	0.8	797,764	0.3	-1,085,133	-57.6

- Rounds to 0.0.

People in America Series: Fastest Growth Ethnic Groups in the United States

"*": General response which may encompass several ancestries not listed separately (i.e., African American includes Black and Negro).

"NS": Not statistically different from zero at the 90-percent confidence level.

"1": Included in the list of examples on the census questionnaire in 1990.

"2": Included in the list of examples on the census questionnaire in 2000.

Notes: Because of sampling error, the estimates in this table may not be significantly different from one another or from other ancestries not listed in this table.

People who reported two ancestries were included once in each category. The estimates in this table differ slightly in some cases from the estimates in other data products due to the collapsing schemes used. For example, here German does not include Bavarian. Some groups correspond to groups identified separately in the race and Hispanic-origin questions. The race item provides the primary source of data for White, Black, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian groups, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander groups. The Hispanic-origin question is the primary identifier for Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic groups.

Editor's note: the ethnic and racial terms used on this page (e.g. "Negro") are those used by the Bureau of the U.S. Census, not the choice of the owners of this web site.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Census and Census 2000 special tabulations.

Table key

Data derived from the U.S. Bureau of the Census (2010).

Count Number of occurrences: Estimate of the number of people with the surname in the United States. (s) means the data was suppressed for privacy.
#/100K Occurrences / 100,000 people: The number of occurrences of a given surname per 100,000 in the United States.
% White % Non-Hispanic White Only: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "non-hispanic white" (race)
% Black % Non-Hispanic Black Only: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "non-hispanic black" (race)
% API % Non-Hispanic Asian & Pacific Islander Only: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "non-hispanic Asian & Pacific Islander" (race)
% AIAN % Non-Hispanic American Indian & Alaskan Native Only: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "non-hispanic American Indian & Alaskan Native" (race)
% 2 or More Races % Non-Hispanic of 2 or More Races: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "non-hispanic two or more races" (race)
% Hispanic % Hispanic Origin: Percentage of people with a given surname who classified themselves as "Hispanic origin" (race)
Rank in 2010
Count in 2010 Number of occurrences: Estimate of the number of people with the surname in the United States according to the 2000 census.
% Change % Change between 2000 and 2010
Rank change Change in rank between 2000 and 2010