2000 Census
| 1790 U.S Ancestry Based on Evaluated census figures |
2000 U.S Ancestry from the official U.S census |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestry group | Number |
% of total |
Ancestry | Number |
% of total |
| English | 1,900,000 | 47.5 | German | 42,885,162 | 15.2 |
| African | 750,000 | 19.0 | African | 36,419,434 | 12.9 |
| Scotch-Irish | 320,000 | 8.0 | Hispanic American | 35,250,124 | 12.1 |
| German | 280,000 | 7.0 | Irish | 30,594,130 | 10.9 |
| Irish | 200,000 | 5.0 | English | 24,515,138 | 8.7 |
| Scottish | 160,000 | 4.0 | Mexican | 20,640,711 | 7.3 |
| Welsh | 120,000 | 3.0 | Italian | 15,723,555 | 5.6 |
| Dutch | 100,000 | 2.5 | French | 10,846,018 | 3.9 |
| French | 80,000 | 2.0 | Polish | 8,977,444 | 3.2 |
| Spanish | 50,000 | 1.0 | Scottish | 4,890,581 | 1.7 |
| Native American | 20,000 | 0.5 | Dutch | 4,542,494 | 1.6 |
| Swedish | 20,000 | 0.5 | Norwegian | 4,477,725 | 1.6 |
| Total | 3,929,326 | 100 | Scotch-Irish | 4,319,232 | 1.5 |
In the 2000 census, 24.5 million Americans reported English ancestry, 8.7% of the total U.S. population. This estimate is probably a serious undercount by over 30 million given that, in the 1980 census, around 50 million citizens claimed to be of at least partial English ancestry. In 1980, 23,748,772 Americans claimed wholly English ancestry and another 25,849,263 claimed English along with another ethnic ancestry.
In 1860, an estimated 11 million or almost 35% of the population of the United States was wholly or primarily of English ancestry. The population has increased by almost ten times the numbers in 1860. As with any ethnicity, Americans of English descent may choose to identify themselves as just 'American ethnicity' if their ancestry has been in the United States for many generations or if, for the same reason, they are unaware of their lineages.
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