Georgia Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Georgia Ancestry Data

Ancestry	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
White	6,025,691	6,039,389	6,061,821	6,079,976	6,098,889	6,020,265
African American	3,096,757	3,148,134	3,195,268	3,239,300	3,289,020	3,319,844
American	1,078,893	1,057,598	1,047,482	1,034,947	1,000,287	897,202
Hispanic or Latino	915,120	926,990	950,380	968,463	992,394	1,013,057
Mexican	548,982	551,102	556,633	561,710	565,361	558,421
English	422,576	407,138	382,771	364,100	341,845	374,378
Asian	360,448	373,983	388,946	402,501	414,481	434,603
Irish	281,699	280,609	273,895	263,351	252,941	248,999
Some Other Race	279,403	281,491	282,570	283,680	291,872	306,609
German	224,425	219,927	215,149	209,468	202,085	196,390
Subsaharan African	154,801	156,822	155,746	163,511	159,915	159,654
Asian Indian	111,111	121,008	130,763	137,222	144,054	154,460
African	93,679	92,053	86,967	91,657	88,043	80,964
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	90,433	88,124	89,512	91,136	91,683	95,606
Puerto Rican	86,792	90,858	93,138	96,870	100,970	107,661
European	84,433	89,242	93,555	109,269	125,007	127,241
Italian	79,203	78,886	80,020	78,773	76,966	76,698
Scottish	71,803	74,969	74,877	73,689	70,408	65,071
Scotch-Irish	65,838	65,805	65,707	63,697	61,100	57,582
Korean	54,364	54,563	54,951	56,557	56,106	58,334
Chinese	53,627	53,600	55,292	58,493	59,231	59,617
Jamaican	46,039	44,563	46,929	48,703	48,733	49,922
Guatemalan	43,162	42,590	47,766	51,904	55,077	58,261
Salvadoran	40,768	40,821	42,437	44,752	45,864	42,047
Polish	33,439	33,669	33,606	32,927	31,981	31,875
Colombian	33,078	32,802	33,151	33,666	35,510	35,917
French	32,179	32,553	32,242	31,754	29,973	28,593
Cuban	31,175	30,846	32,065	31,840	32,778	36,164
British	27,820	27,985	29,736	32,600	35,322	33,662
Honduran	25,667	27,534	28,622	28,985	30,349	30,479
Haitian	21,965	21,370	19,427	19,706	21,492	21,005
Filipino	20,891	21,927	21,832	22,579	23,429	25,329
Dominican	20,794	22,146	25,543	24,638	25,979	28,437
Total Arab	19,617	20,086	21,545	21,026	23,562	22,900
Dutch	18,356	17,933	17,214	16,787	16,228	14,738
Russian	17,306	17,652	17,946	16,953	16,174	16,592
Nigerian	17,197	18,594	20,371	22,226	22,199	24,836
American Indian	16,037	18,904	21,423	23,473	26,435	24,065
All other Hispanic or Latino	15,628	17,736	18,523	19,507	21,638	28,388
Ethiopian	13,838	16,092	16,653	17,400	16,874	20,354
Swedish	13,094	12,140	11,871	11,073	10,056	10,182
Norwegian	12,260	12,778	13,023	12,752	12,875	12,084
Welsh	11,336	11,520	11,363	10,923	10,522	10,883
French Canadian	11,081	10,751	10,452	10,207	10,278	10,701
Peruvian	11,074	11,393	11,003	11,373	10,909	11,305
Pakistani	10,744	13,338	13,665	14,436	14,091	13,391
Panamanian	10,082	10,124	10,830	10,915	9,801	9,815
West Indian	8,861	7,433	7,536	7,414	6,683	6,782
Romanian	8,700	8,780	9,016	9,359	8,809	9,179
Other Subsaharan African	8,590	8,939	10,662	10,462	10,801	11,493
Greek	8,553	8,421	8,548	8,367	8,838	8,481
Japanese	8,179	8,879	8,943	9,066	9,282	9,227
Ukrainian	7,788	7,008	6,046	5,481	5,682	5,240
Nicaraguan	7,703	7,128	6,472	5,669	5,799	6,663
Iranian	7,223	7,545	7,787	7,306	6,923	7,341
Spaniard	7,153	7,796	8,288	9,145	10,511	10,763
Venezuelan	6,942	7,943	9,136	10,396	13,239	16,042
Brazilian	6,854	7,231	7,355	7,676	8,606	10,322
Hungarian	6,506	6,279	5,878	5,677	5,587	5,213
Eastern European	6,499	6,682	7,088	7,985	10,444	11,057
Canadian	6,402	6,421	6,258	6,770	6,263	6,623
Yugoslavian	6,036	5,952	5,264	4,464	4,694	4,802
Guyanese	5,961	5,809	6,204	7,577	7,211	7,676
Laotian	5,760	6,620	6,165	5,166	5,387	5,300
Ecuadorian	5,730	5,482	5,787	6,080	6,768	6,603
Two or more Asian	5,552	5,251	5,947	5,941	6,351	7,540
Burmese	5,281	4,661	5,289	4,948	4,475	5,368
Cambodian	4,999	4,050	4,183	4,447	3,533	3,410
Bangladeshi	4,923	3,941	3,297	3,993	4,969	5,501
Lebanese	4,870	4,533	4,509	3,942	4,075	4,591
Portuguese	4,748	5,295	4,648	4,685	5,072	5,578
Ghanaian	4,734	5,220	5,269	6,429	6,559	5,807
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	4,717	5,528	5,568	5,258	5,423	6,423
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	4,704	4,916	5,237	6,095	6,233	7,127
Argentinean	4,556	4,429	4,712	5,418	5,069	5,215
Thai	4,521	4,237	4,651	4,813	5,114	4,782
Other Asian, not specified	4,458	4,019	4,107	3,874	3,907	3,657
Spanish	4,406	4,350	4,111	4,286	4,711	7,499
Czech	4,405	4,017	4,211	3,797	3,544	3,436
Scandinavian	4,348	4,383	4,594	4,614	5,265	5,996
Northern European	4,316	5,030	5,440	6,693	7,622	7,560
Somali	4,113	3,295	3,741	3,637	3,377	2,803
Danish	4,010	3,970	3,868	3,398	3,431	3,654
Hmong	3,798	3,797	3,583	4,578	4,656	5,496
Austrian	3,783	3,984	3,963	3,722	3,542	3,189
Kenyan	3,697	3,865	3,474	3,117	2,667	2,620
Costa Rican	3,662	4,069	4,050	3,706	4,195	5,563
Taiwanese	3,497	3,004	2,855	2,573	3,017	2,800
Chilean	3,437	3,052	3,060	2,531	2,435	2,444
Arab	3,228	3,097	3,157	2,859	2,966	1,967
Other Arab	3,104	3,449	3,983	3,791	3,986	3,792
Swiss	3,092	3,317	3,434	3,183	3,599	3,289
Nepalese	3,020	3,611	3,466	4,920	4,804	4,212
Turkish	2,892	2,536	2,451	2,637	2,696	2,966
Liberian	2,692	2,981	2,618	2,643	2,776	3,405
Lithuanian	2,666	2,410	2,365	2,296	2,478	2,259
British West Indian	2,540	2,680	3,353	3,036	2,445	4,209
South African	2,344	2,485	2,396	1,906	2,208	2,070
Indonesian	2,226	2,449	2,475	2,102	2,098	2,013
Uruguayan	2,203	2,266	2,288	2,455	2,477	2,175
Afghan	2,100	2,283	2,766	2,641	2,294	2,046
Barbadian	1,985	1,972	2,085	2,137	2,246	1,951
Slovak	1,902	1,949	2,018	2,038	1,795	2,131
Bulgarian	1,894	1,999	2,282	2,216	2,179	2,376
Egyptian	1,873	2,562	2,840	3,145	3,154	2,990
Czechoslovakian	1,838	1,928	2,044	1,891	1,634	1,435
Croatian	1,836	2,002	2,031	1,903	1,669	1,564
Sudanese	1,768	1,280	1,036	1,515	1,552	1,695
Finnish	1,764	1,828	1,826	2,005	2,067	1,624
Palestinian	1,662	1,315	1,238	1,285	1,754	2,130
Israeli	1,554	1,511	1,430	1,638	1,931	2,411
Bahamian	1,553	1,707	1,783	1,993	2,160	2,946
Syrian	1,523	1,429	1,683	1,563	1,661	1,879
Moroccan	1,437	1,662	1,385	1,581	1,792	2,042
Belgian	1,413	1,603	1,636	1,770	1,753	1,485
Bhutanese	1,363	2,091	2,057	1,631	1,569	1,681
Armenian	1,349	1,331	1,103	1,149	1,127	1,294
Cajun	1,310	1,372	1,504	1,416	1,452	1,275
Albanian	1,216	1,406	1,215	1,072	1,223	1,103
Sri Lankan	1,187	927	881	1,239	898	705
United States Virgin Islander	1,130	1,230	1,382	1,438	1,198	1,425
Iraqi	1,056	1,175	1,859	2,037	3,105	2,801
Australian	1,009	865	913	827	679	1,122
Jordanian	864	864	891	823	1,069	708
Other Central American	787	633	744	672	697	274
Celtic	746	683	576	508	548	424
Pennsylvania German	741	819	766	783	707	633
Serbian	705	825	917	633	657	593
Belizean	701	782	527	621	676	460
Cape Verdean	682	648	649	854	718	713
Slavic	634	808	862	1,059	980	757
Senegalese	609	489	656	356	363	342
Bolivian	596	747	944	901	1,045	1,301
Slovene	594	573	667	526	520	640
Latvian	543	493	398	419	432	421
Bermudan	539	446	372	424	357	328
Sierra Leonean	529	497	539	552	618	561
Alaska Native tribes	415	482	549	304	401	429
Paraguayan	333	370	479	405	461	507
Dutch West Indian	302	290	393	264	161	108
Basque	281	186	172	88	160	127
Other South American	279	453	323	416	487	885
Macedonian	248	121	159	280	278	245
German Russian	228	166	178	239	220	165
Zimbabwean	200	266	525	593	985	749
New Zealander	181	215	209	201	157	83
Icelander	180	195	208	373	318	412
Luxembourger	179	53	77	65	61	63
Mongolian	158	121	125	89	0	9
Malaysian	148	313	252	308	651	787
Maltese	132	139	129	89	97	70
Spanish American	131	320	275	223	264	228
Ugandan	129	118	190	164	175	1,242
Estonian	124	94	150	117	120	93
Other West Indian	101	123	157	142	109	47
Alsatian	83	42	42	52	52	28
Soviet Union	65	61	46	52	0	0
Cypriot	51	64	50	108	107	83
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	41	23	18	56	115	89
Other Asian, specified	32	53	51	330	329	1,148
Carpatho Rusyn	8	17	36	47	45	38

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 .