Alabama Ancestry and Population Demographic Data
On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in Alabama, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.
Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Alabama for the past 6 years. These start from the latest figures from the Census Bureau for , back to -5.
To make the surfacing of this data easier, we've listed it in descending order based on the most recent year of data available, which means that past years may not be in the correct descending order.
All ancestry labels below are the grouping terms used by the U.S. Census Bureau and are not labels that Name Census has provided.
Alabama Ancestry Data
Ancestry |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
White |
3,325,464 |
3,325,037 |
3,317,702 |
3,317,453 |
3,320,247 |
3,302,834 |
African American |
1,276,544 |
1,282,053 |
1,287,167 |
1,293,186 |
1,299,048 |
1,301,319 |
American |
700,039 |
688,791 |
701,219 |
724,635 |
731,725 |
713,888 |
English |
198,527 |
189,757 |
176,613 |
165,740 |
158,850 |
185,864 |
Hispanic or Latino |
193,492 |
193,503 |
198,375 |
203,146 |
208,626 |
212,951 |
Irish |
170,618 |
168,341 |
163,610 |
153,616 |
144,603 |
142,720 |
Mexican |
128,381 |
124,935 |
123,596 |
124,210 |
126,071 |
124,956 |
German |
114,646 |
110,418 |
105,402 |
100,162 |
94,389 |
93,098 |
Some Other Race |
61,078 |
61,991 |
66,942 |
70,055 |
70,662 |
74,996 |
Asian |
59,599 |
60,744 |
62,815 |
64,609 |
66,270 |
67,909 |
Scotch-Irish |
42,954 |
42,041 |
40,298 |
38,251 |
36,358 |
34,789 |
European |
37,311 |
42,304 |
46,629 |
51,117 |
57,534 |
60,041 |
Subsaharan African |
37,012 |
37,817 |
42,621 |
43,365 |
42,126 |
35,509 |
Scottish |
36,976 |
37,214 |
36,077 |
35,390 |
34,648 |
34,631 |
African |
32,933 |
33,137 |
37,443 |
37,567 |
36,251 |
30,945 |
Italian |
31,360 |
30,740 |
30,197 |
27,998 |
27,840 |
27,242 |
American Indian |
19,407 |
19,279 |
20,536 |
20,822 |
20,624 |
19,553 |
French |
19,018 |
18,192 |
17,977 |
17,010 |
15,378 |
15,120 |
Guatemalan |
16,976 |
17,734 |
19,196 |
18,460 |
20,451 |
19,781 |
Puerto Rican |
14,524 |
16,391 |
17,833 |
20,635 |
21,688 |
23,613 |
British |
12,406 |
13,179 |
12,974 |
13,858 |
14,438 |
14,057 |
Asian Indian |
11,915 |
12,459 |
11,823 |
12,456 |
13,201 |
13,666 |
Chinese |
11,286 |
12,052 |
12,843 |
12,505 |
12,770 |
13,228 |
Korean |
10,544 |
11,068 |
11,630 |
12,096 |
11,640 |
11,649 |
Polish |
9,961 |
9,950 |
9,411 |
9,156 |
8,801 |
8,631 |
Dutch |
9,539 |
8,127 |
7,765 |
7,190 |
6,939 |
6,232 |
Total Arab |
6,842 |
7,899 |
7,841 |
6,996 |
5,970 |
7,442 |
Norwegian |
5,804 |
5,392 |
5,292 |
5,357 |
5,414 |
5,373 |
Filipino |
5,586 |
5,891 |
5,873 |
6,105 |
6,517 |
6,872 |
Swedish |
5,419 |
5,138 |
4,967 |
4,528 |
4,407 |
4,237 |
Welsh |
5,216 |
5,412 |
5,511 |
5,287 |
5,067 |
5,607 |
Cuban |
5,155 |
5,423 |
5,324 |
5,449 |
4,880 |
6,484 |
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) |
4,774 |
5,686 |
5,780 |
6,179 |
6,089 |
6,323 |
All other Hispanic or Latino |
4,471 |
5,520 |
7,169 |
8,422 |
9,914 |
10,826 |
French Canadian |
4,217 |
4,272 |
4,590 |
4,101 |
4,225 |
3,753 |
Greek |
3,515 |
3,633 |
3,792 |
3,696 |
3,456 |
3,015 |
Russian |
3,293 |
3,657 |
3,371 |
3,061 |
2,838 |
2,534 |
Honduran |
3,156 |
3,920 |
3,917 |
4,255 |
5,119 |
5,089 |
Spaniard |
3,007 |
2,406 |
2,561 |
2,388 |
2,314 |
2,905 |
Salvadoran |
2,913 |
3,174 |
3,259 |
3,645 |
3,583 |
3,987 |
Panamanian |
2,833 |
2,475 |
3,118 |
3,235 |
3,342 |
2,579 |
Lebanese |
2,604 |
2,832 |
2,467 |
2,264 |
2,016 |
2,337 |
Colombian |
2,461 |
2,264 |
2,351 |
1,924 |
1,858 |
2,023 |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander |
2,439 |
2,008 |
2,213 |
2,182 |
2,238 |
2,042 |
Jamaican |
2,153 |
2,521 |
2,530 |
2,627 |
2,507 |
2,789 |
Hungarian |
1,993 |
2,051 |
2,311 |
2,243 |
1,916 |
2,155 |
Pakistani |
1,900 |
1,677 |
1,538 |
2,055 |
2,240 |
2,181 |
Japanese |
1,838 |
2,048 |
2,378 |
2,693 |
2,674 |
2,729 |
Canadian |
1,670 |
1,710 |
1,702 |
1,754 |
1,725 |
1,534 |
Spanish |
1,588 |
1,456 |
1,300 |
1,247 |
972 |
1,405 |
Nicaraguan |
1,546 |
1,159 |
1,506 |
1,370 |
961 |
843 |
Laotian |
1,497 |
1,483 |
1,497 |
1,205 |
1,280 |
1,070 |
Northern European |
1,356 |
1,561 |
1,527 |
1,959 |
2,531 |
2,979 |
Czech |
1,349 |
1,610 |
1,514 |
1,334 |
1,371 |
1,218 |
Nigerian |
1,314 |
1,554 |
1,658 |
2,262 |
2,117 |
1,859 |
Thai |
1,306 |
1,387 |
1,783 |
1,626 |
1,768 |
1,923 |
Scandinavian |
1,284 |
1,379 |
1,565 |
2,081 |
2,425 |
3,215 |
Dominican |
1,275 |
1,134 |
1,186 |
1,327 |
1,551 |
1,588 |
Other Arab |
1,271 |
1,385 |
1,588 |
1,324 |
1,065 |
1,115 |
Swiss |
1,203 |
1,088 |
895 |
887 |
774 |
831 |
Venezuelan |
1,147 |
1,424 |
1,516 |
1,721 |
1,638 |
2,059 |
Danish |
1,140 |
1,149 |
1,298 |
1,246 |
1,033 |
1,239 |
Haitian |
1,058 |
1,463 |
1,580 |
1,807 |
1,678 |
1,532 |
Peruvian |
1,057 |
1,176 |
1,242 |
1,632 |
1,585 |
1,665 |
Austrian |
1,020 |
1,066 |
930 |
839 |
782 |
658 |
Arab |
961 |
1,338 |
1,479 |
1,222 |
1,064 |
1,051 |
Ukrainian |
948 |
1,154 |
1,163 |
1,165 |
1,265 |
1,134 |
Portuguese |
858 |
821 |
832 |
970 |
1,449 |
1,703 |
Iranian |
828 |
1,010 |
1,139 |
1,190 |
1,266 |
1,256 |
Other Asian, not specified |
810 |
542 |
621 |
975 |
878 |
873 |
Cambodian |
802 |
634 |
769 |
819 |
813 |
673 |
Czechoslovakian |
790 |
759 |
718 |
719 |
652 |
568 |
Eastern European |
769 |
1,029 |
1,363 |
2,385 |
3,097 |
3,523 |
Finnish |
748 |
690 |
536 |
677 |
697 |
673 |
Kenyan |
727 |
867 |
1,081 |
900 |
967 |
626 |
Costa Rican |
722 |
578 |
577 |
558 |
543 |
518 |
Belgian |
697 |
651 |
578 |
571 |
373 |
426 |
Cajun |
691 |
673 |
707 |
723 |
643 |
490 |
Ecuadorian |
681 |
782 |
782 |
893 |
736 |
940 |
Egyptian |
661 |
526 |
536 |
475 |
430 |
410 |
Brazilian |
660 |
535 |
525 |
789 |
774 |
887 |
Lithuanian |
653 |
672 |
652 |
579 |
728 |
736 |
Croatian |
643 |
664 |
716 |
559 |
416 |
546 |
Other Subsaharan African |
630 |
653 |
793 |
835 |
972 |
760 |
Romanian |
626 |
580 |
721 |
750 |
885 |
942 |
Slovak |
581 |
643 |
611 |
531 |
538 |
493 |
Bangladeshi |
577 |
759 |
784 |
625 |
714 |
721 |
Turkish |
557 |
610 |
553 |
663 |
793 |
754 |
Two or more Asian |
553 |
672 |
792 |
709 |
904 |
1,036 |
Argentinean |
465 |
463 |
547 |
595 |
537 |
580 |
Palestinian |
444 |
674 |
664 |
793 |
709 |
1,321 |
West Indian |
439 |
420 |
464 |
322 |
493 |
657 |
Nepalese |
424 |
336 |
434 |
629 |
695 |
703 |
Indonesian |
388 |
106 |
41 |
116 |
137 |
218 |
Ethiopian |
383 |
479 |
490 |
435 |
369 |
408 |
Chilean |
356 |
435 |
529 |
525 |
442 |
563 |
Bahamian |
338 |
373 |
340 |
280 |
347 |
187 |
Jordanian |
334 |
365 |
231 |
163 |
113 |
39 |
Yugoslavian |
329 |
288 |
222 |
251 |
226 |
193 |
Sri Lankan |
324 |
209 |
279 |
283 |
137 |
0 |
Bolivian |
315 |
259 |
237 |
137 |
56 |
106 |
Australian |
301 |
329 |
539 |
451 |
385 |
328 |
Pennsylvania German |
292 |
253 |
168 |
228 |
266 |
203 |
Slavic |
286 |
235 |
237 |
214 |
226 |
198 |
Trinidadian and Tobagonian |
278 |
259 |
220 |
257 |
197 |
411 |
Ghanaian |
266 |
193 |
253 |
266 |
193 |
206 |
Armenian |
261 |
352 |
313 |
363 |
294 |
298 |
South African |
257 |
362 |
290 |
388 |
421 |
233 |
Guyanese |
253 |
312 |
323 |
293 |
198 |
141 |
Hmong |
231 |
160 |
6 |
26 |
118 |
133 |
Celtic |
231 |
254 |
205 |
345 |
323 |
330 |
Moroccan |
230 |
267 |
314 |
336 |
248 |
737 |
Sudanese |
200 |
220 |
232 |
249 |
334 |
39 |
Syrian |
198 |
229 |
271 |
202 |
157 |
203 |
Latvian |
198 |
173 |
207 |
242 |
298 |
214 |
Taiwanese |
186 |
228 |
279 |
291 |
487 |
833 |
Bulgarian |
173 |
203 |
242 |
175 |
222 |
167 |
Serbian |
155 |
138 |
181 |
180 |
89 |
103 |
Albanian |
152 |
126 |
83 |
119 |
65 |
74 |
Israeli |
147 |
298 |
499 |
385 |
103 |
95 |
Iraqi |
139 |
283 |
291 |
217 |
168 |
229 |
German Russian |
126 |
129 |
39 |
57 |
43 |
48 |
British West Indian |
124 |
136 |
145 |
159 |
137 |
84 |
Malaysian |
121 |
98 |
117 |
48 |
47 |
158 |
Uruguayan |
121 |
156 |
257 |
212 |
118 |
93 |
Barbadian |
119 |
174 |
138 |
153 |
190 |
132 |
Other Central American |
117 |
27 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
84 |
Slovene |
108 |
94 |
56 |
51 |
58 |
41 |
Liberian |
100 |
69 |
94 |
115 |
111 |
161 |
Paraguayan |
96 |
66 |
85 |
96 |
44 |
40 |
Alaska Native tribes |
90 |
105 |
85 |
133 |
107 |
64 |
Estonian |
84 |
40 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
Dutch West Indian |
74 |
153 |
147 |
163 |
153 |
102 |
Other South American |
72 |
94 |
206 |
171 |
168 |
177 |
Senegalese |
68 |
76 |
73 |
78 |
93 |
8 |
Luxembourger |
67 |
91 |
75 |
78 |
5 |
7 |
Ugandan |
67 |
97 |
51 |
100 |
104 |
91 |
Burmese |
64 |
36 |
64 |
60 |
37 |
60 |
Belizean |
59 |
56 |
39 |
60 |
49 |
33 |
Spanish American |
57 |
52 |
81 |
39 |
34 |
47 |
New Zealander |
57 |
55 |
40 |
33 |
52 |
49 |
United States Virgin Islander |
47 |
36 |
83 |
259 |
246 |
240 |
Icelander |
46 |
55 |
65 |
48 |
37 |
32 |
Other West Indian |
45 |
53 |
39 |
27 |
27 |
13 |
Maltese |
44 |
26 |
35 |
22 |
8 |
4 |
Bermudan |
40 |
42 |
55 |
65 |
65 |
143 |
Afghan |
36 |
48 |
45 |
45 |
41 |
133 |
Cape Verdean |
29 |
30 |
71 |
64 |
68 |
21 |
Basque |
28 |
18 |
34 |
37 |
44 |
45 |
Mongolian |
25 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
89 |
Alsatian |
18 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac |
17 |
16 |
19 |
18 |
16 |
2 |
Somali |
16 |
12 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Zimbabwean |
16 |
55 |
75 |
92 |
116 |
137 |
Macedonian |
14 |
31 |
51 |
38 |
38 |
58 |
Okinawan |
10 |
35 |
21 |
28 |
27 |
9 |
Cypriot |
8 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Carpatho Rusyn |
7 |
9 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
11 |
Sierra Leonean |
6 |
13 |
15 |
14 |
10 |
15 |
Data Source(s)
All of the data on this page is sourced from the latest American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, from the United States Census Bureau. The latest year for the ACS is currently .
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