Arizona Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in Arizona, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.

Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Arizona 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.

Arizona Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 5,210,335 5,235,158 5,277,661 5,364,141 5,444,453 5,292,498
Hispanic or Latino 2,014,711 2,054,849 2,103,523 2,163,312 2,208,663 2,260,690
Mexican 1,813,659 1,845,058 1,884,425 1,926,274 1,957,968 1,982,168
Some Other Race 430,890 468,906 474,583 471,823 460,262 492,027
German 306,076 296,929 289,749 277,774 265,380 268,053
American 300,527 272,955 245,971 233,483 227,313 219,164
African American 281,576 287,110 292,831 305,259 317,462 325,105
American Indian 272,386 273,198 275,361 283,001 289,898 281,783
Asian 200,090 205,229 213,417 228,887 233,213 239,190
English 197,050 189,766 184,940 177,777 174,252 189,504
Irish 167,557 162,511 156,345 152,755 148,629 152,151
Italian 109,487 108,745 106,171 104,019 102,020 104,077
European 62,538 69,548 72,853 83,750 94,045 98,122
Polish 53,477 52,769 51,346 51,542 50,750 46,717
Norwegian 43,407 42,564 40,810 39,552 39,665 39,279
Asian Indian 43,322 47,138 51,370 56,039 61,022 63,701
Scottish 39,841 38,871 37,680 35,702 35,233 33,423
Puerto Rican 38,540 41,598 43,693 46,981 49,316 51,533
Chinese 37,302 37,835 39,821 43,935 43,365 43,791
Filipino 36,976 37,832 39,921 42,651 43,438 44,711
All other Hispanic or Latino 33,166 35,309 38,007 45,065 50,518 62,956
French 30,514 29,382 27,981 27,409 25,595 24,472
Swedish 27,854 27,011 25,758 24,626 24,246 23,252
Subsaharan African 27,326 28,715 31,764 34,793 37,357 38,124
Spaniard 25,112 26,611 26,654 28,065 29,445 33,342
Dutch 24,005 23,975 24,434 23,465 22,205 21,167
Total Arab 22,998 25,930 26,567 28,106 27,820 24,987
Scotch-Irish 22,127 21,447 21,666 20,817 20,321 19,538
Spanish 20,208 18,691 18,287 19,179 19,442 24,453
Russian 16,949 17,321 16,423 15,916 16,418 15,855
Korean 15,987 15,407 14,903 15,569 15,256 15,356
Guatemalan 15,910 16,589 17,701 20,393 21,098 19,392
British 15,009 17,185 18,376 19,975 21,656 21,547
Canadian 14,834 15,245 14,413 14,160 13,308 13,703
African 14,271 14,959 16,225 17,114 18,941 16,900
French Canadian 13,949 14,204 13,855 13,964 13,512 12,798
Cuban 12,888 13,545 14,702 15,296 15,670 17,140
Salvadoran 12,744 14,017 13,525 14,421 15,855 18,953
Danish 12,475 11,774 11,332 10,406 10,237 10,045
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 12,471 12,863 13,364 14,112 14,458 14,633
Japanese 10,269 9,997 9,938 10,253 10,122 10,152
Hungarian 9,649 9,316 8,995 9,026 8,495 8,954
Welsh 9,279 9,624 9,159 8,843 8,829 7,926
Greek 8,968 8,447 7,857 8,295 8,126 8,412
Colombian 8,611 8,276 8,783 8,676 8,829 9,070
Czech 8,366 7,885 7,665 7,127 7,306 7,257
Scandinavian 7,779 8,574 9,072 9,378 10,370 10,953
Romanian 7,601 7,996 8,523 8,393 8,977 8,895
Iranian 6,752 6,457 6,377 7,246 6,887 6,376
Ukrainian 6,364 6,390 6,210 5,684 5,743 5,781
Portuguese 6,272 6,103 5,983 5,147 5,240 4,789
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 6,056 5,707 5,952 5,853 6,327 8,004
Finnish 6,017 5,658 4,941 5,118 4,694 4,957
Yugoslavian 5,889 5,546 4,712 4,695 4,425 4,556
Peruvian 5,419 5,424 5,829 5,887 6,066 5,866
Eastern European 5,406 6,036 6,642 8,103 9,696 10,906
Iraqi 5,366 6,018 6,184 6,663 6,647 6,485
Two or more Asian 4,946 4,876 5,030 5,397 5,281 6,213
Honduran 4,804 5,037 5,236 5,086 5,077 5,513
Swiss 4,756 4,748 4,338 3,994 3,943 3,395
Northern European 4,587 4,944 5,734 6,809 8,401 8,526
Serbian 4,213 3,709 3,294 3,814 4,013 4,101
Thai 4,087 4,247 3,847 3,956 3,778 3,607
Arab 4,057 4,503 4,473 4,174 4,093 3,085
Other Arab 3,944 4,900 5,424 5,630 6,011 5,236
Lithuanian 3,916 3,854 3,418 3,166 3,230 3,442
Lebanese 3,733 3,863 3,709 3,990 3,943 3,418
Slovak 3,498 3,474 3,193 2,939 2,849 2,747
Austrian 3,481 3,469 3,174 3,154 2,988 2,702
Dominican 3,291 4,050 4,673 5,216 5,643 5,050
Croatian 3,284 2,875 2,712 2,781 2,668 2,633
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 3,270 2,541 2,939 2,762 3,056 3,363
Burmese 3,105 2,600 2,814 3,262 3,359 3,717
Argentinean 3,065 2,997 3,000 2,894 2,801 2,934
Czechoslovakian 2,815 2,650 2,477 2,421 2,383 2,797
Pakistani 2,808 2,721 2,379 2,786 2,814 3,156
Ecuadorian 2,797 3,225 3,519 3,761 3,682 3,433
Panamanian 2,727 2,567 2,177 2,217 2,585 3,200
Armenian 2,562 2,679 2,789 3,038 2,777 3,252
Nicaraguan 2,520 2,805 2,768 3,171 3,440 4,166
Laotian 2,440 2,516 2,463 2,291 2,487 2,399
Cambodian 2,429 2,753 2,586 2,413 2,438 2,782
Ethiopian 2,427 2,432 2,398 2,786 3,157 4,401
Jamaican 2,394 2,269 2,464 2,573 2,600 3,028
Chilean 2,265 2,100 2,502 2,429 2,722 3,136
Other Asian, not specified 2,237 2,307 2,153 2,443 2,345 2,378
Somali 2,136 2,341 2,777 3,317 2,929 2,781
Nigerian 2,127 2,615 2,414 2,726 2,771 2,938
Other Subsaharan African 2,085 1,848 2,205 2,679 3,023 3,687
Belgian 1,863 1,921 1,726 1,574 1,677 1,720
Egyptian 1,843 1,756 1,610 1,792 1,484 1,638
Costa Rican 1,774 1,751 2,316 2,441 2,817 2,529
Brazilian 1,740 1,638 1,498 1,390 1,590 2,006
Venezuelan 1,719 2,115 2,435 2,835 3,069 3,293
Turkish 1,643 1,593 1,610 1,682 1,649 1,590
Bangladeshi 1,513 1,540 1,522 1,780 2,410 2,801
Bulgarian 1,494 1,668 1,596 1,404 1,921 1,701
Taiwanese 1,361 1,381 1,327 1,325 1,752 1,590
Nepalese 1,354 1,531 1,692 2,189 1,511 1,760
Bolivian 1,332 1,015 1,137 932 777 706
Jordanian 1,329 1,108 1,011 1,220 1,171 949
Albanian 1,236 1,130 1,338 1,811 1,713 1,886
Haitian 1,226 1,106 1,135 1,267 1,238 1,938
Slovene 1,171 1,122 1,180 1,148 1,112 1,086
Palestinian 1,110 1,096 1,470 1,574 1,380 1,478
Afghan 1,105 1,190 1,070 1,662 1,887 2,501
Pennsylvania German 1,101 1,005 936 1,001 881 837
Australian 1,051 1,079 1,090 1,180 1,141 857
Israeli 1,047 1,284 1,279 1,362 1,358 1,363
Sudanese 1,033 1,298 1,822 1,736 2,264 2,910
Slavic 1,024 928 901 834 1,091 849
Liberian 919 591 562 801 830 675
South African 905 966 889 795 727 950
Indonesian 887 891 833 866 1,287 1,186
Kenyan 876 877 1,238 1,443 1,094 1,217
Moroccan 810 1,148 1,002 983 844 704
Syrian 806 1,538 1,684 2,080 2,247 1,994
Alaska Native tribes 799 992 968 948 1,051 1,063
Basque 699 775 855 836 865 886
Uruguayan 667 675 650 396 330 317
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 661 553 526 484 600 728
Celtic 657 624 672 600 478 502
Other South American 646 495 418 483 260 253
Latvian 545 617 501 446 519 541
Spanish American 527 422 437 390 338 386
Icelander 510 656 456 427 360 410
West Indian 504 637 646 590 629 1,033
Hmong 394 306 225 249 126 139
Bhutanese 387 275 281 440 447 602
Macedonian 361 356 260 287 289 279
Belizean 357 350 357 197 285 429
Cajun 332 297 352 373 458 529
Malaysian 314 301 366 316 459 337
Guyanese 309 308 294 482 412 386
New Zealander 295 336 265 234 282 282
Sri Lankan 290 374 391 588 457 585
Maltese 263 226 245 244 255 201
Luxembourger 255 321 229 268 279 284
Ghanaian 246 393 681 699 680 768
British West Indian 246 248 203 222 283 200
Bahamian 214 171 206 158 308 310
Other Central American 205 321 493 579 633 584
Barbadian 204 198 245 124 117 146
Cape Verdean 147 197 228 284 288 229
Estonian 140 146 120 119 152 187
Dutch West Indian 138 89 69 67 80 43
German Russian 137 316 291 341 360 277
Paraguayan 115 156 156 245 282 317
Zimbabwean 98 122 178 149 143 160
Mongolian 65 57 225 113 61 153
Bermudan 57 46 74 120 95 75
Alsatian 55 58 46 36 35 38
United States Virgin Islander 48 26 5 27 42 40
Okinawan 35 46 11 24 14 15
Sierra Leonean 23 24 82 75 85 102
Ugandan 20 39 53 177 393 293
Cypriot 15 7 33 37 82 54
Senegalese 13 13 12 12 32 113
Carpatho Rusyn 11 29 25 26 28 10
Other Asian, specified 9 42 63 68 80 637
Other West Indian 7 14 22 24 50 34

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