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 .

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