European Ancestries Table
Further information: Race and ethnicity in the United States and Maps of American ancestries| Ancestry | 1980 | % of U.S. 1980 |
1990 | % of U.S. 1990 |
2000 | % of U.S. 2000 |
Change, 1990 to 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 38,658 | 0.02% | 47,710 | 0.02% | 113,661 | 0.04% | +138.2% |
| Azeris | 4,563 | 0.002% | 12,737 | 0.01% | 24,377 | 0.01% | +91.2% |
| Armenian | 214,362 | 0.09% | 296,672 | 0.1% | 385,488 | 0.1% | +29.3% |
| American | no data | no data | 12,395,999 | 5.0% | 20,188,305 | 7.2% | +62.9% |
| Austrian | 948,558 | 0.42% | 864,783 | 0.3% | 730,336 | 0.3% | -15.5% |
| Basque | 43,140 | 0.02% | 47,956 | 0.02% | 57,793 | 0.02% | +20.5% |
| Belarusian | 600,000 | 0.2% | |||||
| Belgian | 360,277 | 0.16% | 380,403 | 0.2% | 348,531 | 0.1% | -08.4% |
| Bosnian | 350,000 | 0.1% | |||||
| British | ? | ? | 1,119,140 | 0.4% | 1,085,718 | 0.4% | -03.0% |
| Bulgarian | 42,504 | 0.02% | 29,595 | 0.01% | 55,489 | 0.02% | +87.5% |
| Croatian | 252,970 | 0.11% | 544,270 | 0.2% | 374,241 | 0.1% | -31.2% |
| Cypriot | 7.643 | ||||||
| Czech | 1,892,456 | 0.84% | 1,296,369 | 0.5% | 1,258,452 | 0.4% | -02.9% |
| Danish | 1,518,273 | 0.67% | 1,634,648 | 0.7% | 1,430,897 | 0.5% | -12.5% |
| Dutch | 6,304,499 | 2.78% | 6,226,339 | 2.5% | 4,541,770 | 1.6% | -27.1% |
| English | 49,598,035 | 21.89% | 32,651,788 | 13.1% | 24,509,692 | 8.7% | -24.9% |
| Estonian | 25,994 | 0.01% | 26,762 | 0.01% | 25,034 | 0.01% | -06.5% |
| Finnish | 615,872 | 0.27% | 658,854 | 0.3% | 623,559 | 0.2% | -05.4% |
| French | 12,892,246 | 5.69% | 10,320,656 | 4.1% | 13,172,178 | 4.0% | -19.5% |
| Georgian | 6.298 | ||||||
| German | 49,224,146 | 21.73% | 57,947,171 | 23.3% | 42,841,569 | 15.2% | -26.1% |
| Greek | 959,856 | 0.42% | 1,110,292 | 0.4% | 1,153,295 | 0.4% | +03.9% |
| Hungarian | 1,776,902 | 0.78% | 1,582,302 | 0.6% | 1,398,702 | 0.5% | -11.6% |
| Icelandic | 32,586 | 0.01% | 40,529 | 0.02% | 42,716 | 0.01% | +05.4% |
| Irish | 40,165,702 | 17.73% | 38,735,539 | 15.6% | 30,524,799 | 10.8% | -21.2% |
| Italian | 12,183,692 | 5.38% | 14,664,189 | 5.9% | 15,638,348 | 5.6% | +06.6% |
| Latvian | 92,141 | 0.04% | 100,331 | 0.04% | 87,564 | 0.03% | -12.7% |
| Liechtensteiner | 1,244 | 0.0004 | |||||
| Lithuanian | 742,776 | 0.33% | 811,865 | 0.3% | 659,992 | 0.2% | -18.7% |
| Luxembourg | 45,139 | 0.01% | -/+ 0% | ||||
| Macedonia | 57,200 | 0.02% | -/+ -6,927% | ||||
| Maltese | 31,645 | 0.01% | 39,600 | 0.02% | 40,159 | 0.01% | +01.4% |
| Moldavian | 7,859 | 0.003 | |||||
| Montenegrin | 80,000 | 0.03% | |||||
| Norwegian | 3,453,839 | 1.52% | 3,869,395 | 1.6% | 4,477,725 | 1.6% | +15.7% |
| Pennsylvania Dutch | 255,807 | 0.1% | |||||
| Polish | 8,228,037 | 3.63% | 9,366,051 | 3.8% | 8,977,235 | 3.2% | -04.2% |
| Portuguese | 1,024,351 | 0.45% | 1,148,857 | 0.5% | 1,173,691 | 0.4% | +02.2% |
| Romanian | 315,258 | 0.14% | 365,531 | 0.1% | 367,278 | 0.1% | +0.5% |
| Russian | 2,781,432 | 1.23% | 2,951,373 | 1.2% | 2,652,214 | 0.9% | -10.1% |
| Scots-Irish | 16,418 | 0.007% | 5,617,773 | 2.3% | 4,319,232 | 1.5% | -23.1% |
| Scottish | 10,048,816 | 4.44% | 5,393,581 | 2.2% | 4,890,581 | 1.7% | -09.3% |
| Serbian | 100,941 | 0.04% | 116,795 | 0.05% | 51,679 | 0.05% | -50% |
| Slovak | 776,806 | 0.3% | 1,882,897 | 0.8% | 797,764 | 0.3% | -57.6% |
| Slovene | 126,463 | 0.06 | 124,437 | 0.1% | 176,691 | 0.1% | +42% |
| Spanish | 94,528 | 0.04% | 360,858 | 0.1% | 299,948 | 0.1% | -16.9% |
| Swedish | 4,345,392 | 1.92% | 4,680,863 | 1.9% | 3,998,310 | 1.4% | -14.6% |
| Swiss | 981,543 | 0.43% | 1,045,492 | 0.4% | 911,502 | 0.3% | -12.8% |
| Turkish | 75,988 | 0.03% | 86,427 | 0.17% | 117,575 | 0.1% | +36% |
| Ukrainian | 730,056 | 0.32% | 740,723 | 0.3% | 892,922 | 0.3% | +20.5% |
| Welsh | 1,664,598 | 0.73% | 2,033,893 | 0.82% | 1,753,794 | 0.6% | -13.8% |
| Yugoslavs | 328,547 | 0.1% | |||||
| European | 1,968,696 | 0.7% | |||||
| Scandinavians | 425,099 | 0.2% | |||||
| Total | 214,726,269 | 94.78% | 223,371,445 | 89.81% | 201,290,597 | 71.53% | -18,28% |
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