Florida Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Florida Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 14,934,702 15,130,748 15,343,997 15,529,098 15,702,256 15,199,588
Hispanic or Latino 4,660,733 4,806,854 5,015,015 5,184,720 5,346,684 5,468,826
African American 3,171,108 3,216,994 3,270,863 3,316,376 3,359,031 3,381,061
American 1,495,009 1,477,039 1,452,260 1,423,879 1,402,389 1,409,783
Cuban 1,363,419 1,400,092 1,450,510 1,488,135 1,520,577 1,532,516
Puerto Rican 977,995 1,014,340 1,065,351 1,102,564 1,137,632 1,155,423
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 727,257 743,864 755,084 770,111 773,833 762,725
Mexican 668,344 676,551 694,779 713,518 725,645 709,870
German 645,237 636,621 615,542 593,698 569,814 558,190
Irish 558,015 542,853 528,788 518,143 499,918 496,291
English 551,355 542,528 519,833 502,015 482,314 523,047
Italian 534,925 526,520 520,457 510,606 506,616 502,421
Asian 509,085 521,272 543,394 559,168 571,276 590,668
Some Other Race 493,202 505,877 536,298 580,152 625,079 699,596
Haitian 407,829 417,198 422,907 434,014 438,098 423,672
Colombian 343,829 350,558 364,895 371,328 387,118 404,952
Jamaican 227,809 232,202 234,233 238,403 239,584 245,427
Dominican 201,261 209,507 221,858 231,288 236,798 246,209
Polish 183,580 180,092 176,262 172,910 170,813 168,401
European 156,830 161,936 171,928 194,044 224,585 235,590
Nicaraguan 153,004 153,876 155,565 159,128 159,083 153,486
Asian Indian 139,420 143,020 153,968 160,241 163,767 173,493
Honduran 126,938 132,396 141,147 147,297 152,705 150,689
Venezuelan 126,674 144,143 166,531 190,207 217,013 242,869
Peruvian 121,061 121,081 121,454 124,456 125,759 128,819
Scottish 109,779 111,079 107,083 103,883 100,534 96,872
French 108,376 105,061 103,383 99,907 94,005 91,242
Guatemalan 102,722 108,484 112,052 117,367 121,559 126,443
Filipino 97,381 99,035 99,641 103,974 105,591 105,869
Russian 92,161 88,901 86,001 85,126 82,218 80,892
Subsaharan African 91,824 90,814 93,996 94,669 100,745 108,616
Chinese 86,420 90,092 93,745 96,639 99,265 102,300
Scotch-Irish 76,986 75,520 72,399 71,683 71,834 68,470
All other Hispanic or Latino 76,250 85,425 94,801 102,095 117,544 158,392
Total Arab 73,850 75,314 73,895 78,011 78,622 81,557
Ecuadorian 72,450 74,042 75,511 77,696 79,192 78,676
African 68,019 65,366 67,056 67,025 69,902 74,516
Salvadoran 63,073 65,511 70,396 73,174 75,538 76,313
Argentinean 62,759 65,436 70,901 74,691 73,748 73,979
French Canadian 61,620 60,099 59,336 58,246 56,845 53,852
British 55,327 54,870 57,525 63,986 68,264 65,221
Spaniard 54,734 59,662 63,653 64,249 67,761 69,074
Brazilian 53,706 55,334 60,626 64,913 71,052 73,488
Dutch 51,406 50,957 51,058 49,943 47,895 44,687
Canadian 44,043 44,098 42,483 41,756 41,585 40,240
Swedish 42,674 40,852 39,500 38,206 34,916 34,372
Greek 42,519 42,651 42,859 42,876 40,982 40,242
Norwegian 41,559 40,937 41,150 40,690 39,796 39,828
Hungarian 39,619 37,508 37,065 36,023 34,606 33,508
American Indian 37,004 35,891 38,589 40,604 42,165 39,880
Panamanian 34,742 34,235 33,717 34,610 34,268 35,907
Portuguese 31,964 32,402 33,883 35,545 36,075 37,093
Korean 27,571 28,627 28,712 30,243 29,085 27,484
Costa Rican 27,039 27,370 26,356 25,463 25,776 23,452
West Indian 26,404 25,963 25,474 25,448 23,437 21,252
Chilean 25,482 25,942 27,489 30,416 31,090 30,584
Ukrainian 24,847 25,191 25,783 26,421 28,477 27,517
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 23,776 25,308 26,345 26,239 26,806 26,514
Eastern European 22,516 24,774 28,713 33,707 39,909 43,119
Welsh 22,091 22,871 22,675 21,861 20,789 21,011
Spanish 20,060 18,286 17,401 16,342 16,860 27,708
Czech 19,295 18,556 17,613 17,194 15,842 15,204
Romanian 19,112 19,341 17,575 17,847 17,924 17,870
Bahamian 18,617 18,545 19,891 19,220 18,944 18,331
Guyanese 17,778 18,963 19,534 19,631 17,822 20,590
Uruguayan 17,406 16,723 16,957 16,516 16,388 18,361
Pakistani 17,074 17,411 18,572 17,783 16,900 16,065
Lebanese 16,307 17,576 16,812 17,762 16,622 17,221
Austrian 14,879 13,677 12,727 12,922 11,987 12,206
Japanese 14,073 13,918 14,570 14,613 14,808 14,510
Lithuanian 13,536 13,137 13,105 13,180 12,976 13,516
Slovak 13,099 12,520 13,052 12,962 12,812 11,556
Danish 13,014 13,127 13,576 12,794 11,936 11,142
Thai 12,894 12,627 13,656 12,778 12,578 13,384
Yugoslavian 12,089 10,052 9,928 11,247 10,470 9,981
Arab 11,919 11,547 11,076 10,623 10,480 9,068
Bolivian 11,558 12,965 13,759 14,541 15,277 15,170
Turkish 11,519 11,459 11,720 12,056 11,321 11,174
Egyptian 11,264 11,497 10,873 11,539 11,289 12,347
Iranian 11,113 11,396 11,317 11,066 10,866 10,310
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 11,024 11,288 12,342 12,887 12,653 13,339
Swiss 10,257 10,177 9,721 9,285 8,951 9,126
Israeli 10,122 10,633 10,646 10,172 9,629 9,660
Finnish 10,022 9,996 9,959 9,310 9,068 9,091
British West Indian 9,613 10,716 10,735 12,526 11,780 12,297
Scandinavian 8,905 9,832 10,833 11,985 12,548 14,333
Other Arab 8,838 9,483 8,355 9,440 10,987 11,576
Nigerian 8,725 9,405 9,011 8,928 10,101 10,771
Two or more Asian 8,158 7,576 8,545 8,223 8,646 10,223
Moroccan 7,931 8,641 9,676 9,236 8,926 9,229
Northern European 7,850 8,355 8,586 10,716 11,587 11,854
Croatian 7,817 7,597 7,131 7,068 6,775 6,540
Czechoslovakian 7,759 7,491 6,978 6,481 6,287 6,390
Albanian 7,041 8,702 9,776 10,405 11,444 13,544
Palestinian 6,481 6,472 6,257 6,596 6,606 6,746
Belgian 6,193 5,951 5,889 5,561 5,478 5,472
Cambodian 6,073 7,108 6,741 6,204 6,458 6,084
Armenian 5,842 6,092 6,613 6,509 6,639 7,618
Serbian 5,803 6,206 7,035 7,899 7,194 7,806
Other Asian, not specified 5,538 5,824 5,722 6,451 7,171 7,391
Syrian 5,344 5,302 5,492 6,278 6,516 7,785
Other South American 5,312 5,698 5,495 4,008 3,193 2,853
Bangladeshi 5,214 5,117 5,369 6,032 6,870 6,518
Bulgarian 4,947 5,398 5,170 5,091 5,127 6,213
Laotian 4,938 5,538 5,946 5,197 5,876 6,213
Pennsylvania German 4,671 4,342 4,243 3,949 3,968 4,245
Barbadian 4,400 4,151 4,577 4,246 4,383 4,893
South African 4,351 4,048 4,417 4,476 4,486 4,601
United States Virgin Islander 4,055 4,262 5,186 4,868 5,047 5,488
Burmese 3,133 3,694 4,805 5,107 5,281 5,278
Jordanian 3,062 2,531 2,593 3,026 3,543 4,112
Belizean 3,045 3,404 3,637 3,246 3,581 2,683
Taiwanese 3,042 3,241 3,412 3,330 3,509 4,012
Slavic 2,768 2,821 2,987 3,128 2,905 2,887
Iraqi 2,704 2,265 2,761 3,511 3,653 3,473
Ethiopian 2,618 3,097 3,207 3,590 3,583 4,304
Australian 2,194 2,388 2,278 2,403 2,307 2,659
Indonesian 2,159 2,058 2,352 2,072 2,229 2,155
Paraguayan 2,135 2,287 2,169 2,811 3,080 3,933
Cajun 2,006 1,804 1,984 1,752 1,621 1,338
Other Subsaharan African 1,943 2,144 2,555 3,111 4,079 5,228
Cape Verdean 1,937 1,946 1,923 1,812 1,642 1,345
Latvian 1,918 1,968 1,840 1,749 1,822 1,925
Other Central American 1,877 1,719 1,745 2,004 2,277 1,967
Slovene 1,791 1,782 1,900 2,114 2,274 2,773
Sri Lankan 1,767 1,895 1,872 2,083 2,312 1,469
Hmong 1,621 1,270 1,279 1,676 1,636 1,478
Macedonian 1,551 1,850 1,995 1,753 1,771 1,552
Estonian 1,543 1,406 1,431 1,056 1,186 1,284
Ghanaian 1,517 1,527 1,533 1,527 1,832 1,727
Afghan 1,489 1,680 1,905 1,364 1,412 1,568
Alaska Native tribes 1,451 1,163 988 1,186 718 416
Maltese 1,334 1,237 910 918 954 957
Celtic 1,262 1,073 1,026 1,115 1,481 1,384
Nepalese 1,178 1,297 1,199 1,124 1,305 1,518
Icelander 1,051 817 741 859 1,050 1,077
Other West Indian 767 1,015 1,028 827 898 856
Basque 722 911 972 1,151 1,382 1,145
Kenyan 691 695 639 724 770 1,018
Sudanese 665 993 1,487 1,234 1,780 1,771
Spanish American 609 525 523 816 803 1,181
New Zealander 538 474 675 575 720 830
Liberian 536 620 1,071 1,025 1,221 1,413
Bermudan 502 591 512 504 417 404
Malaysian 484 546 614 595 730 685
Luxembourger 470 351 341 344 380 391
German Russian 444 298 220 344 378 448
Dutch West Indian 440 509 559 570 858 908
Cypriot 341 365 405 311 417 388
Soviet Union 322 41 60 70 70 66
Zimbabwean 278 287 297 441 381 481
Senegalese 275 300 236 169 260 217
Bhutanese 225 75 199 206 0 0
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 197 278 320 340 328 398
Alsatian 194 195 124 106 70 117
Other Asian, specified 177 195 145 158 153 887
Mongolian 161 344 370 375 351 465
Okinawan 105 136 137 136 55 51
Somali 101 129 267 189 224 391
Ugandan 92 199 219 318 362 552
Carpatho Rusyn 91 189 174 198 151 177
Sierra Leonean 76 58 78 100 122 281

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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