Highest ancestry of peoples in the United States of America
Updated on Oct 05 2020
46,403,053 14.7%
1. Germany
Pennsylvania has the largest population of German Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown.
38,785,726 12.3%
2. African American
Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
34,640,287 10.9%
3. Mexican
Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) is the richest person in the world.
33,526,444 10.6%
4. Irish
Upon arrival in the United States, many Irish women became Catholic nuns and participated in the many American sisterhoods.
24,787,018 7.8%
5. English
Most of the Presidents of the United States have had English ancestry like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush etc.
22,746,991 7.2%
6. American
President Theodore Roosevelt, asserted an American race had been formed on the American frontier, one distinct from other ethnic groups, such as the Anglo-Saxons
17,285,619 5.5%
7. Italian
Christopher Columbus, the explorer who first reached in America was Italian.
10,275,066 3.1%
8. French
The Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French people in memory of the American Declaration of Independence.
9,385,766 2.8%
9. Polish
Helena Modjeska was a renowned actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.
5,409,343 1.7%
10. Scottish
Donald Trump mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born in the village of Tong, Isle of Lewis, and emigrated to the USA in 1930.