States with the highest number of English*

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.

All figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau Report issued in June 2004 English in America: "English" are defined as people who marked their ethnic origin as "English" on the Census survey in 1990 and/or 2000.

* Highest number as percentage of region population not total population.

State/Region (2000 population)	% of Region's Population	Ethnic Group Population
Utah (2,233,169)	29	647,619
Maine (1,274,923)	21.5	274,108
Vermont (608,827)	18.4	112,024
Idaho (1,293,953)	18.1	234,205
New Hampshire (1,235,786)	18	222,441
Wyoming (493,782)	15.9	78,511
Oregon (3,421,399)	13.2	451,625
Montana (902,195)	12.6	113,677
Delaware (783,600)	12.1	94,816
Washington (5,894,121)	12	707,295
Colorado (4,301,261)	12	516,151
Rhode Island (1,048,319)	12	125,798
Massachusetts (6,349,097)	11.4	723,797
Virginia (7,078,515)	11.1	785,715
Kansas (2,688,418)	10.8	290,349
Arizona (5,130,632)	10.4	533,586
Connecticut (3,405,565)	10.3	350,773
Nevada (1,998,257)	10.1	201,824
West * (63,197,932)	9.9	6,256,595
Michigan (9,938,444)	9.9	983,906
Kentucky (4,041,769)	9.7	392,052
West Virginia (1,808,344)	9.7	175,409
Nebraska (1,711,263)	9.6	164,281
Alaska (626,932)	9.6	60,185
Iowa (2,926,324)	9.5	278,001
North Carolina (8,049,313)	9.5	764,685
Missouri (5,595,211)	9.5	531,545
Florida (15,982,378)	9.2	1,470,379
Ohio (11,353,140)	9.2	1,044,489
Tennessee (5,689,283)	9.1	517,725
Maryland (5,296,486)	9	476,684
Indiana (6,080,485)	8.9	541,163
United States * (281,421,906)	8.7	24,483,706
Midwest * (64,392,776)	8.4	5,408,993
South * (100,236,820)	8.4	8,419,893
Oklahoma (3,450,654)	8.4	289,855
Northeast * (53,594,378)	8.3	4,448,333
South Carolina (4,012,012)	8.2	328,985
Georgia (8,186,453)	8.1	663,103
Pennsylvania (12,281,054)	7.9	970,203
Arkansas (2,673,400)	7.9	211,199
Alabama (4,447,100)	7.8	346,874
California (33,871,648)	7.4	2,506,502
South Dakota (754,844)	7.1	53,594
Wisconsin (5,363,675)	6.5	348,639
Minnesota (4,919,479)	6.3	309,927
Mississippi (2,844,658)	6.1	173,524
New York (18,976,457)	6	1,138,587
District of Columbia (572,059)	4.4	25,171

People in America Series: States with the highest number of English

"-": Rounds to 0.0.

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

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

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.

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