Colorado Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Colorado Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 4,446,095 4,517,058 4,576,201 4,655,584 4,712,574 4,634,305
Hispanic or Latino 1,112,586 1,132,292 1,157,200 1,184,794 1,208,172 1,231,126
Mexican 832,155 835,310 848,985 869,149 885,441 891,760
German 355,279 347,290 335,701 320,689 304,071 293,916
American 227,740 221,197 208,992 195,022 188,202 174,576
Some Other Race 224,374 224,029 225,497 214,817 216,767 233,413
African American 213,787 219,349 221,155 227,938 233,647 235,692
English 159,242 156,925 154,139 146,351 141,724 157,648
Irish 154,993 152,403 148,887 144,606 139,015 137,069
Asian 153,467 157,523 164,771 172,695 178,147 181,733
Italian 85,547 82,808 80,550 78,432 78,742 76,061
All other Hispanic or Latino 81,049 91,086 96,508 95,848 92,942 95,331
European 75,830 79,959 88,149 100,127 114,935 119,342
Spanish 52,182 53,174 52,606 52,655 53,179 58,784
Spaniard 45,856 45,492 45,408 46,950 48,293 51,577
Scottish 37,874 38,803 39,178 38,518 37,446 34,797
Polish 37,065 37,066 36,674 35,398 34,981 34,788
Norwegian 36,822 36,783 36,838 36,222 36,435 34,001
Swedish 32,666 30,955 29,918 29,955 28,438 28,010
American Indian 32,073 33,422 34,074 36,055 36,376 36,305
Subsaharan African 31,721 33,745 33,756 35,743 37,557 36,569
Chinese 29,649 30,973 31,418 33,411 34,337 33,903
Puerto Rican 28,546 30,074 30,533 33,135 35,679 36,520
Dutch 24,418 23,849 23,744 22,380 21,288 20,675
Asian Indian 24,383 25,735 27,931 30,629 31,618 30,433
French 24,024 23,830 23,672 22,184 21,891 19,925
Scotch-Irish 23,874 23,238 22,422 21,704 22,077 21,035
Korean 22,012 21,340 20,757 20,542 20,657 21,207
Russian 18,502 18,423 17,459 16,579 15,433 15,022
British 15,087 15,522 16,210 17,431 18,650 17,203
Filipino 13,900 14,538 15,463 16,300 17,942 18,412
Salvadoran 12,718 13,699 14,576 15,291 17,229 16,308
Total Arab 12,587 11,987 12,358 12,973 13,272 13,336
African 11,784 11,691 10,818 11,709 12,353 11,240
Japanese 11,212 11,766 11,113 10,673 11,010 11,346
Danish 10,610 9,833 9,223 8,944 8,552 8,457
Scandinavian 9,574 10,345 11,080 11,769 12,472 12,012
Czech 9,518 9,330 8,908 8,992 8,945 8,252
French Canadian 9,419 9,569 9,575 9,620 9,598 9,138
Welsh 9,238 9,093 8,729 8,679 8,222 7,718
Northern European 9,021 8,642 9,429 9,984 11,019 11,341
Guatemalan 8,780 8,516 8,438 8,924 9,333 9,034
Cuban 8,422 10,050 11,623 12,259 13,659 13,396
Ethiopian 8,224 8,984 9,292 9,775 9,776 9,982
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 7,695 7,441 8,580 8,296 8,643 8,883
Greek 7,061 6,578 6,403 6,158 6,201 6,254
Peruvian 6,747 7,052 8,527 8,357 8,088 9,090
Honduran 6,563 6,517 6,746 7,216 6,811 6,417
Hungarian 6,354 6,332 5,930 5,978 5,732 5,061
Colombian 6,315 7,018 7,705 7,543 7,957 10,046
Ukrainian 6,133 6,260 6,678 6,309 5,699 5,944
Eastern European 6,081 6,795 7,467 9,165 10,684 11,478
Canadian 5,619 5,769 5,197 5,111 5,344 4,491
Swiss 5,427 5,067 5,012 4,946 5,069 4,813
Austrian 4,460 4,793 4,635 4,244 3,797 3,646
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 4,375 4,655 4,926 4,634 4,701 4,097
Spanish American 4,273 3,824 3,210 3,140 3,052 3,865
Nepalese 4,135 4,033 4,398 4,962 5,004 4,679
Hmong 3,939 4,144 4,446 3,968 3,514 3,964
Other Arab 3,848 3,823 3,687 3,635 3,848 3,673
Czechoslovakian 3,652 3,392 3,612 3,040 3,073 3,062
Two or more Asian 3,589 3,101 3,527 4,186 4,361 5,272
Portuguese 3,507 3,658 3,511 3,469 3,066 3,418
Iranian 3,324 3,503 3,812 3,944 3,995 4,124
Slovak 3,267 3,301 3,108 2,989 2,361 2,384
Lithuanian 3,254 3,131 3,028 2,764 2,343 3,161
Thai 3,146 3,796 4,292 4,499 4,456 4,458
Venezuelan 2,956 3,242 2,910 3,499 3,722 3,754
Slovene 2,887 2,915 2,854 2,817 2,660 2,510
Yugoslavian 2,881 2,590 2,556 2,751 2,486 2,441
Finnish 2,860 3,023 2,733 2,515 2,861 2,999
Argentinean 2,818 3,237 3,505 3,687 3,800 4,348
Romanian 2,793 2,893 3,092 3,267 3,258 2,773
Somali 2,738 2,855 2,505 2,315 2,971 2,576
Panamanian 2,716 2,716 3,005 2,986 3,130 3,114
Other Asian, not specified 2,592 2,619 2,561 2,581 2,284 2,385
Lebanese 2,508 2,451 2,641 2,379 2,261 2,062
Laotian 2,437 2,590 2,612 2,572 2,912 2,135
Dominican 2,304 2,299 2,908 3,148 3,729 4,715
Ghanaian 2,198 2,262 2,308 2,156 1,982 1,934
Jamaican 2,029 2,096 2,157 1,766 2,026 1,960
Arab 2,022 1,740 1,566 1,952 2,007 1,910
Cambodian 2,001 2,226 2,493 2,954 2,858 3,219
Burmese 1,989 1,935 2,672 3,583 3,530 3,119
Slavic 1,926 1,805 1,688 1,654 1,903 1,719
Nigerian 1,911 2,164 2,423 2,588 2,183 2,520
Croatian 1,893 2,014 2,001 2,112 2,019 1,841
Belgian 1,824 1,745 1,566 1,667 1,642 1,953
Armenian 1,733 1,652 1,723 1,687 2,283 2,114
Nicaraguan 1,701 1,870 1,683 1,913 2,166 2,462
Chilean 1,698 1,942 2,197 2,747 2,934 2,930
Indonesian 1,466 1,480 1,175 1,092 1,352 1,384
Sudanese 1,452 1,273 1,428 1,389 1,291 1,523
Pakistani 1,444 1,521 1,878 1,969 2,209 2,571
Ecuadorian 1,441 1,801 2,049 2,374 2,469 2,765
Afghan 1,414 1,577 1,243 1,675 1,579 1,188
Bulgarian 1,414 1,161 1,130 1,395 1,043 1,061
Turkish 1,393 1,543 1,468 1,402 1,355 1,430
Other Subsaharan African 1,348 2,072 2,628 3,114 4,132 4,171
Brazilian 1,148 1,347 1,291 1,426 1,447 1,883
Costa Rican 1,106 1,230 1,463 2,047 2,634 2,722
Bolivian 1,059 923 1,118 949 1,216 1,008
Australian 1,053 1,287 1,334 1,053 1,261 1,652
South African 1,050 1,061 958 823 814 967
Serbian 1,039 933 926 1,019 955 1,212
Basque 1,038 926 811 698 710 731
Egyptian 947 741 801 805 970 933
Moroccan 920 757 932 1,301 1,208 1,632
Latvian 901 1,022 986 1,094 997 751
Taiwanese 897 947 1,067 1,312 1,353 1,700
Israeli 876 858 973 702 589 1,049
Haitian 868 1,020 1,093 1,214 1,132 931
Mongolian 816 975 1,357 1,366 1,281 1,097
Iraqi 774 937 1,285 1,473 1,683 1,293
Pennsylvania German 763 788 848 955 846 737
Alaska Native tribes 722 872 961 1,020 1,215 928
Syrian 704 560 551 521 419 337
Celtic 636 742 871 681 662 663
German Russian 600 663 593 753 840 789
Cajun 568 452 427 454 453 419
Albanian 524 821 800 676 875 752
Jordanian 505 510 383 364 394 535
West Indian 459 456 616 725 646 407
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 423 429 452 308 275 200
Icelander 373 328 323 354 344 369
Palestinian 359 468 512 543 482 961
Other South American 317 408 408 379 176 402
New Zealander 312 488 474 530 504 520
Liberian 308 490 577 480 561 374
Kenyan 307 417 440 872 987 740
Other Central American 296 319 365 80 60 313
Uruguayan 293 179 360 204 173 224
Paraguayan 275 314 364 314 300 241
British West Indian 271 233 146 161 149 192
Bangladeshi 226 192 243 274 241 582
Malaysian 224 267 312 265 297 237
Estonian 197 154 148 222 201 204
Luxembourger 185 204 223 220 195 291
Belizean 163 191 205 221 175 77
Sri Lankan 132 172 169 213 179 330
Sierra Leonean 120 123 0 0 0 0
Ugandan 117 145 195 195 302 322
Senegalese 113 161 136 262 197 208
Guyanese 104 85 141 205 181 109
Bhutanese 103 343 574 683 785 1,936
Macedonian 97 81 94 151 239 274
Alsatian 87 53 52 70 88 67
Dutch West Indian 60 25 18 9 59 59
Carpatho Rusyn 52 74 63 99 43 31
Other Asian, specified 48 60 91 93 62 796
Barbadian 37 81 108 118 139 131
Bermudan 33 35 37 23 22 0
Zimbabwean 32 36 48 65 0 0
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 29 44 60 96 102 159
Bahamian 28 56 48 56 47 48
Maltese 27 33 41 91 80 99
Soviet Union 20 14 12 12 0 0
Cape Verdean 19 11 0 0 8 12
Cypriot 13 14 7 10 12 72
United States Virgin Islander 4 33 46 33 31 92

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