District of Columbia Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

District of Columbia Ancestry Data

Ancestry	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
African American	316,447	318,598	321,062	321,317	320,811	318,631
White	260,325	266,035	273,471	280,469	285,857	288,306
Hispanic or Latino	65,803	69,106	71,829	74,776	76,191	77,981
Some Other Race	27,159	29,650	30,961	33,518	34,511	33,764
Asian	23,822	24,036	25,558	26,718	27,592	28,762
Salvadoran	20,266	20,164	18,840	20,164	19,845	20,028
Subsaharan African	16,516	16,683	17,526	17,483	17,691	18,483
Irish	12,167	11,894	11,644	11,648	10,712	10,187
European	10,559	11,504	11,784	12,381	11,959	11,002
Mexican	10,554	11,378	13,676	14,156	14,053	14,082
German	10,048	9,849	9,727	9,585	9,041	8,555
English	9,559	8,226	8,128	7,767	7,489	7,359
American	8,776	8,726	8,587	8,688	8,320	9,047
Italian	7,873	7,504	7,495	7,245	7,289	7,354
African	6,593	6,133	6,369	5,920	5,816	6,577
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	5,964	6,034	6,165	5,903	6,523	6,634
Chinese	5,900	5,930	6,644	6,557	6,494	6,973
Asian Indian	5,730	5,765	6,190	6,966	7,849	7,879
Ethiopian	5,381	5,962	5,919	6,118	5,894	5,919
Puerto Rican	4,528	4,942	4,861	5,331	6,145	5,397
Guatemalan	3,957	4,210	4,428	4,480	3,003	4,419
All other Hispanic or Latino	3,460	3,215	2,894	2,900	3,739	3,471
Dominican	3,154	3,653	3,831	3,509	4,856	5,070
Polish	3,141	3,066	3,459	3,312	3,419	2,989
Eastern European	3,098	3,355	3,592	3,548	3,928	3,786
Russian	3,038	2,944	2,680	2,376	2,056	2,419
Jamaican	2,977	3,188	3,370	3,055	2,947	2,886
Filipino	2,946	3,015	3,027	3,321	3,173	2,706
Colombian	2,738	2,832	3,087	3,207	3,708	4,437
Total Arab	2,578	2,500	2,450	2,611	2,818	2,642
French	2,552	2,356	2,606	2,779	2,604	2,298
Cuban	2,537	2,901	2,982	3,225	3,093	3,005
Korean	2,457	2,558	2,794	2,903	3,176	3,491
British	2,343	2,261	2,420	2,435	2,532	2,359
Spaniard	2,333	2,391	2,708	3,048	3,027	2,921
Nigerian	2,095	2,194	2,491	2,250	2,642	2,120
Scottish	1,988	2,015	1,830	1,787	1,627	1,443
Honduran	1,820	2,340	2,586	2,994	3,435	2,677
Peruvian	1,804	2,085	2,302	2,434	2,297	2,654
Argentinean	1,576	1,738	1,973	1,559	1,716	1,719
Scotch-Irish	1,530	1,416	1,392	1,245	1,142	1,101
Japanese	1,215	1,288	1,285	1,377	1,213	1,155
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	1,159	971	831	1,009	1,202	1,373
Swedish	1,140	1,188	1,015	1,050	857	916
Iranian	1,135	1,229	1,432	1,728	1,727	1,736
Greek	1,104	1,119	1,245	1,192	1,028	1,179
Other Subsaharan African	1,088	1,029	1,054	1,269	1,406	1,780
Ecuadorian	1,064	1,047	1,172	1,000	1,129	1,297
Norwegian	1,012	1,040	975	858	883	711
Dutch	985	976	1,087	1,127	1,017	889
Bolivian	932	1,010	1,196	932	876	801
Brazilian	926	944	874	788	816	733
Ukrainian	925	948	1,019	1,179	1,088	1,002
Panamanian	923	1,000	943	1,036	1,175	954
American Indian	891	1,023	1,038	1,107	1,159	1,878
Guyanese	830	681	712	689	354	348
Venezuelan	808	758	843	1,085	962	1,229
Haitian	761	823	853	894	1,269	965
Costa Rican	722	744	684	840	482	773
Nicaraguan	696	694	729	802	875	939
French Canadian	691	682	582	619	638	655
Chilean	642	728	821	833	787	747
Pakistani	639	724	831	801	767	511
Hungarian	621	682	682	611	546	582
Lithuanian	616	556	592	605	532	404
West Indian	586	601	550	477	572	704
Canadian	583	557	563	475	585	444
Northern European	518	609	878	791	987	1,175
Thai	513	347	198	165	182	201
Lebanese	512	583	539	608	539	551
Turkish	501	637	541	443	527	445
Two or more Asian	497	630	499	499	529	834
Spanish	494	448	495	510	446	564
Egyptian	481	413	499	522	539	366
Other Arab	479	467	471	525	444	448
Scandinavian	476	409	359	360	301	282
Taiwanese	455	415	301	339	275	328
Austrian	448	415	432	353	356	302
Welsh	418	483	455	345	349	297
Armenian	417	444	484	544	492	607
Uruguayan	412	460	494	508	378	421
Ghanaian	381	335	401	461	503	426
Portuguese	375	449	513	483	390	243
Australian	369	351	320	260	288	188
Croatian	348	379	180	180	195	124
Romanian	343	423	383	490	389	402
Belgian	338	225	264	236	142	154
Czech	338	302	425	420	376	433
Moroccan	335	397	335	329	406	328
Palestinian	334	213	138	129	161	131
Bulgarian	324	316	265	293	305	302
Swiss	299	330	324	335	146	203
Bangladeshi	281	198	162	188	204	443
Israeli	265	286	226	239	204	291
Serbian	262	368	532	574	663	528
Arab	260	263	248	299	351	274
Danish	251	341	384	419	377	334
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	250	271	289	340	376	328
Other Asian, not specified	236	178	243	154	181	159
Finnish	232	205	214	191	214	179
Latvian	226	200	138	110	125	136
Sri Lankan	215	249	271	274	246	207
Nepalese	213	392	491	458	424	449
Albanian	195	207	295	392	433	526
Kenyan	180	198	171	276	220	322
Paraguayan	172	237	206	138	116	238
Slovak	163	211	270	310	345	324
Sierra Leonean	150	181	169	198	217	152
British West Indian	150	160	167	142	133	186
Burmese	139	150	105	143	166	145
Liberian	131	141	129	148	139	245
South African	130	156	154	155	130	127
Cambodian	122	107	176	136	145	203
Bahamian	122	139	203	143	180	173
Other South American	115	83	54	58	48	70
Malaysian	114	103	88	81	62	35
Syrian	114	126	187	186	288	188
Senegalese	114	71	121	98	126	132
Yugoslavian	110	72	74	89	82	115
Indonesian	105	134	166	201	151	152
Somali	102	10	12	14	31	75
Slovene	94	107	106	88	97	41
Other Central American	87	38	14	15	0	68
Icelander	73	82	98	88	96	68
Afghan	67	31	47	49	52	31
United States Virgin Islander	67	53	41	43	57	163
Zimbabwean	66	64	24	59	50	47
Dutch West Indian	65	6	6	6	5	0
Other Asian, specified	58	62	54	74	63	55
Slavic	55	77	80	62	42	68
Cape Verdean	53	46	166	124	97	137
Soviet Union	47	36	18	10	15	7
Macedonian	42	50	51	33	58	38
Laotian	41	13	5	4	3	4
Celtic	37	41	31	28	16	0
Hmong	34	0	0	0	0	0
Jordanian	32	19	17	0	19	21
Iraqi	31	19	16	13	71	335
Czechoslovakian	30	32	54	65	53	59
Estonian	29	26	4	38	36	33
Barbadian	29	32	89	87	88	86
Sudanese	28	107	287	334	335	306
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	27	19	18	18	28	28
Cypriot	27	42	29	37	61	45
Pennsylvania German	27	34	29	40	65	50
Ugandan	24	56	59	59	85	118
Maltese	22	39	41	44	97	73
Other West Indian	21	33	32	23	18	28
Basque	20	21	12	12	0	0
Okinawan	16	18	18	19	19	0
Cajun	16	16	30	26	83	52
Belizean	14	16	9	11	14	49
Bermudan	13	12	14	13	38	21
Spanish American	9	10	10	12	0	0
Luxembourger	9	7	4	9	29	28
New Zealander	8	13	12	10	7	9

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 .