Hawaii Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Hawaii Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Asian 530,551 537,363 540,556 536,842 537,355 534,519
White 357,164 353,643 357,308 355,612 354,847 342,923
Filipino 202,501 209,323 211,189 214,895 215,294 209,243
Japanese 182,295 181,998 178,444 171,478 170,915 173,572
Hispanic or Latino 139,251 141,827 145,381 147,962 149,118 152,566
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 138,901 143,973 142,600 143,274 142,997 147,698
Chinese 56,402 54,645 56,523 56,255 55,035 53,958
Puerto Rican 47,911 48,697 47,572 46,237 46,650 51,188
Two or more Asian 44,494 45,745 47,070 47,048 48,115 47,881
Mexican 41,588 42,186 44,728 45,832 46,989 47,164
African American 28,688 25,871 25,884 26,266 26,025 26,717
Korean 23,017 22,924 23,925 24,659 24,945 25,304
Spanish 21,854 21,569 22,369 23,973 24,018 22,672
German 20,909 19,985 19,732 18,084 16,768 15,792
Some Other Race 14,864 13,479 14,056 15,292 17,433 19,791
Irish 13,627 12,898 12,493 12,054 11,135 10,966
English 13,414 12,727 12,134 11,618 10,441 11,623
Portuguese 13,250 12,295 11,244 10,326 9,656 8,823
Spaniard 12,821 12,572 12,625 12,132 10,916 11,295
American 12,377 11,804 10,886 10,438 10,200 9,944
Italian 8,481 8,347 8,082 7,990 7,971 6,795
European 7,587 8,536 8,688 9,152 10,131 9,943
All other Hispanic or Latino 4,439 5,211 5,539 6,428 6,573 7,120
Scottish 4,042 3,690 3,848 3,870 3,329 3,042
Polish 3,474 3,391 3,353 3,238 3,110 3,136
French 3,034 2,947 2,722 2,563 2,468 2,411
Norwegian 2,938 3,023 2,920 2,840 3,013 2,597
Laotian 2,440 2,059 1,855 1,730 1,975 1,694
Asian Indian 2,338 2,507 2,750 2,899 2,825 2,534
American Indian 2,125 1,986 1,949 2,119 2,656 2,639
Swedish 2,117 1,870 1,998 1,957 2,160 1,836
Scotch-Irish 2,094 2,118 2,182 2,063 1,978 1,846
Okinawan 2,069 2,131 2,138 2,154 2,060 2,428
Cuban 2,055 2,204 2,239 2,438 2,281 2,045
Thai 1,939 1,928 2,067 2,026 2,641 2,900
British 1,824 1,775 1,683 1,912 1,772 1,704
Dutch 1,815 1,638 1,446 1,308 1,329 1,316
Russian 1,667 1,634 1,767 1,572 1,733 1,565
Subsaharan African 1,528 1,631 1,536 1,424 1,482 1,698
Colombian 1,453 1,592 1,620 1,668 1,825 1,512
Northern European 1,131 974 901 1,191 1,238 1,330
Salvadoran 1,098 874 866 765 786 996
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1,076 976 1,042 1,309 1,273 1,548
African 1,046 1,118 1,111 983 763 981
Dominican 1,003 980 1,088 988 1,113 1,030
French Canadian 948 898 903 716 804 679
Czech 897 755 763 593 522 415
Total Arab 849 912 1,107 1,336 1,102 931
Danish 815 767 716 774 678 586
Hungarian 780 777 697 574 643 504
Scandinavian 769 743 800 762 795 1,009
Canadian 756 791 767 869 839 898
Taiwanese 732 721 658 804 780 1,015
Guatemalan 692 791 1,155 1,690 1,752 1,928
Peruvian 688 689 796 923 948 962
Indonesian 666 507 537 335 295 484
Honduran 642 741 595 454 517 452
Eastern European 621 919 981 1,028 1,218 1,055
Brazilian 564 511 464 539 554 454
Finnish 560 466 491 344 435 371
Greek 559 594 648 782 728 820
Nicaraguan 553 461 525 504 350 344
Argentinean 547 712 753 766 835 794
Jamaican 546 474 464 516 528 745
Ukrainian 506 515 562 521 493 512
Cambodian 504 486 401 388 430 480
Austrian 499 596 560 527 522 428
Welsh 470 443 411 417 435 462
Swiss 448 508 487 446 455 434
Venezuelan 416 497 659 737 899 755
Other Asian, not specified 411 481 548 562 550 946
Chilean 387 377 501 519 515 444
Panamanian 350 571 603 682 915 717
Lithuanian 348 306 290 230 208 217
Iranian 324 288 294 392 433 450
Australian 316 287 251 189 212 244
Ecuadorian 298 472 491 493 478 487
Haitian 236 219 275 368 362 284
Armenian 234 252 312 250 277 210
Romanian 230 288 241 174 211 214
Israeli 221 183 267 305 288 100
Lebanese 220 208 279 280 263 193
Nepalese 218 290 336 336 281 326
Yugoslavian 196 181 178 171 246 140
Serbian 189 174 98 152 295 189
Costa Rican 188 406 464 430 501 445
Egyptian 186 202 235 262 245 265
Alaska Native tribes 181 109 173 185 198 142
Czechoslovakian 177 187 172 143 138 183
Croatian 173 221 201 196 234 279
Sri Lankan 158 203 198 212 225 87
South African 158 139 102 77 151 246
Bulgarian 148 123 194 141 175 324
Slovak 148 131 184 207 144 123
New Zealander 147 95 120 112 141 106
Mongolian 138 171 110 121 118 169
Other Arab 132 101 128 171 84 51
Palestinian 130 182 182 188 130 86
Burmese 126 178 162 174 161 152
Latvian 116 146 143 118 83 103
Syrian 112 154 124 160 86 74
Pakistani 111 118 68 75 19 18
Slovene 102 96 100 27 57 68
Slavic 95 104 116 79 75 83
Estonian 93 92 95 105 70 37
Turkish 89 68 70 115 120 132
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 85 56 87 93 73 145
Other Subsaharan African 83 114 55 84 94 80
Bolivian 82 86 57 144 129 93
British West Indian 74 87 64 126 94 54
Belgian 72 107 60 64 70 115
Belizean 72 76 44 0 0 17
Hmong 70 58 47 49 43 42
German Russian 66 110 77 96 125 115
Uruguayan 64 40 51 49 9 38
Nigerian 61 81 98 87 87 146
Arab 55 50 118 205 204 212
Cape Verdean 51 56 57 89 84 9
Other Asian, specified 50 46 19 29 16 87
West Indian 50 42 76 189 187 234
Bangladeshi 49 56 0 0 9 77
Other Central American 44 47 58 0 4 4
Other South American 43 37 17 66 67 56
Basque 40 40 191 165 171 179
Ethiopian 40 36 3 3 6 5
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 38 60 23 29 24 20
Cajun 37 30 51 24 19 20
Celtic 36 61 75 54 59 64
Guyanese 31 12 26 39 55 49
Malaysian 28 22 31 31 43 71
Albanian 28 26 25 25 30 21
Pennsylvania German 28 29 40 7 34 30
Icelander 26 8 30 34 51 48
Somali 26 26 40 40 42 19
Sudanese 22 13 26 25 31 22
Alsatian 19 13 8 8 0 0
Spanish American 18 0 0 0 0 8
Paraguayan 17 15 10 44 48 17
Ghanaian 15 26 23 27 216 190
Kenyan 13 10 8 0 0 0
Ugandan 13 12 13 9 8 0
Bermudan 13 13 23 10 11 46
Iraqi 12 11 14 35 34 13
Luxembourger 12 13 13 13 8 8
Macedonian 5 6 5 25 30 39
Maltese 4 20 24 21 34 34
Moroccan 2 4 27 35 56 31

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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