Louisiana Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Louisiana Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 2,902,538 2,909,290 2,909,599 2,901,106 2,892,275 2,856,904
African American 1,484,363 1,494,201 1,500,648 1,502,916 1,502,963 1,500,633
American 415,873 398,118 379,216 353,990 348,485 316,546
French 270,494 268,691 267,326 257,941 237,157 217,500
Hispanic or Latino 218,263 223,408 231,708 234,920 239,164 243,372
English 125,601 118,824 113,536 107,548 99,071 107,730
French Canadian 106,908 106,228 108,290 109,884 109,016 99,928
Irish 103,732 104,091 98,599 94,403 90,508 89,851
German 96,418 94,382 91,046 85,439 77,605 70,018
Mexican 86,776 90,637 93,625 93,750 92,224 88,174
Italian 84,118 85,224 84,093 80,540 74,867 66,556
Asian 77,818 78,719 80,980 79,872 80,806 80,930
Some Other Race 47,595 50,434 56,216 60,419 65,592 72,815
Cajun 42,219 44,193 44,393 42,912 42,498 41,629
Honduran 38,423 39,225 42,281 43,291 47,031 47,164
Subsaharan African 35,585 44,515 55,291 59,789 60,895 55,125
African 32,243 40,837 51,534 55,301 56,646 49,742
American Indian 20,472 20,021 20,506 20,431 20,378 19,316
Scotch-Irish 18,200 16,962 16,270 15,340 14,841 13,307
Scottish 16,727 16,663 17,070 16,419 15,043 15,504
European 15,889 18,260 20,842 25,571 29,717 30,956
Puerto Rican 13,961 14,013 14,932 15,100 15,486 15,130
Chinese 11,716 11,941 11,612 10,755 11,844 12,608
Total Arab 11,540 13,002 13,166 13,255 13,776 13,667
Cuban 11,475 11,281 11,530 10,748 11,892 12,132
Asian Indian 10,475 10,584 11,679 10,371 10,755 11,827
Spaniard 9,916 9,773 8,898 9,248 8,396 9,127
Guatemalan 9,660 10,012 9,948 10,826 9,623 9,087
All other Hispanic or Latino 7,989 8,674 9,313 10,021 10,876 14,259
Nicaraguan 7,837 7,412 8,130 7,658 7,567 7,754
Salvadoran 7,623 8,082 8,988 8,691 8,780 8,242
Filipino 7,290 7,350 7,721 8,582 8,498 9,067
Polish 7,170 7,329 7,166 6,588 6,191 6,861
Dominican 5,797 5,562 5,247 5,839 5,744 6,449
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 5,335 5,747 6,397 5,538 4,906 6,318
British 5,327 5,677 5,837 6,882 7,117 7,020
Dutch 4,791 4,810 4,597 4,164 3,638 3,486
Norwegian 4,417 4,228 4,044 3,871 3,933 3,699
Spanish 4,401 3,677 3,502 4,049 4,134 8,705
Colombian 4,252 3,987 4,012 4,206 4,386 3,905
Korean 3,967 4,003 3,917 3,554 3,499 2,756
Swedish 3,107 2,927 3,184 3,105 3,058 2,883
Russian 2,972 2,822 2,691 2,410 2,259 1,945
Greek 2,849 2,746 2,673 2,420 2,039 1,773
Lebanese 2,781 2,697 2,678 2,324 2,419 2,285
Arab 2,652 3,300 3,366 3,567 3,492 2,594
Canadian 2,553 1,816 1,752 1,684 1,811 2,150
Welsh 2,483 2,636 2,467 2,348 2,586 2,244
Haitian 2,407 2,721 2,960 1,995 1,649 2,110
Venezuelan 1,855 2,016 2,076 2,212 2,468 2,389
Other Arab 1,839 1,945 1,960 1,684 1,646 1,837
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 1,824 1,464 1,401 1,468 1,406 1,743
Hungarian 1,784 1,986 1,894 1,594 1,890 1,811
Palestinian 1,772 2,393 2,679 2,444 2,929 2,360
Brazilian 1,626 1,654 1,704 1,859 1,590 1,435
Laotian 1,578 1,682 1,825 1,990 1,930 2,301
Pakistani 1,577 1,573 2,118 1,987 1,951 2,164
Panamanian 1,496 1,827 1,799 1,989 2,068 2,134
Iranian 1,492 1,327 1,075 908 1,016 1,040
Czech 1,470 1,415 1,338 1,286 1,255 1,477
Japanese 1,376 1,509 1,517 1,583 1,774 2,254
Nigerian 1,375 1,510 1,349 1,694 1,552 2,343
Ecuadorian 1,317 1,586 1,794 1,866 1,923 1,922
Peruvian 1,304 1,448 1,534 1,672 1,769 1,539
Croatian 1,290 1,133 903 899 882 665
Other Asian, not specified 1,270 1,134 1,378 1,353 1,395 993
Belgian 1,264 1,209 1,134 1,101 1,212 1,021
Portuguese 1,247 1,377 1,110 1,091 1,154 1,169
Jamaican 1,187 1,100 1,541 1,588 1,527 1,672
Scandinavian 1,127 1,202 1,091 1,458 1,504 2,056
Northern European 1,102 1,036 1,119 1,573 2,346 2,827
Danish 1,100 1,068 949 750 666 615
Egyptian 1,064 963 806 1,115 1,116 1,715
Costa Rican 1,043 1,204 1,100 903 992 1,143
Two or more Asian 1,027 1,042 1,158 1,027 1,127 1,332
Thai 973 1,195 1,107 1,146 1,074 800
Romanian 931 867 768 970 1,087 1,166
Argentinean 923 894 1,011 866 779 755
Swiss 914 922 859 840 755 580
Czechoslovakian 802 751 595 571 549 406
Eastern European 760 1,042 1,546 1,811 2,080 2,012
Ukrainian 735 735 824 870 753 747
Turkish 721 473 402 343 439 392
Chilean 682 608 606 614 583 516
Other Central American 659 773 635 542 1,416 1,957
Yugoslavian 626 688 689 706 623 394
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 506 534 288 315 350 319
Indonesian 487 424 693 678 546 415
Ethiopian 480 436 531 575 538 1,027
Finnish 466 422 416 446 473 328
West Indian 460 610 767 682 605 819
Nepalese 442 609 684 639 652 809
Lithuanian 442 483 475 346 337 313
Cambodian 435 530 535 626 715 850
Jordanian 429 560 574 992 1,394 1,917
Austrian 413 425 477 546 578 559
Sri Lankan 409 436 473 294 266 200
Other Subsaharan African 393 596 617 822 815 884
Iraqi 391 368 302 425 189 205
Burmese 389 94 321 292 451 505
Syrian 372 554 641 513 424 603
Taiwanese 371 442 399 484 501 370
Ghanaian 368 246 263 300 254 488
Bangladeshi 348 281 241 226 138 128
Bulgarian 306 315 447 503 428 502
Bolivian 302 263 444 560 651 548
Israeli 286 257 261 178 339 366
Slavic 266 316 147 221 210 209
Belizean 262 234 282 327 269 340
Serbian 249 413 320 339 280 280
South African 245 311 392 185 104 101
Moroccan 240 222 160 191 167 151
Armenian 237 262 175 149 234 281
Slovak 233 286 262 248 234 208
Uruguayan 194 183 138 169 241 193
Kenyan 187 111 146 311 287 150
Guyanese 176 136 81 88 78 190
Alaska Native tribes 161 159 148 165 160 75
Hmong 153 124 134 108 103 34
Paraguayan 153 99 92 39 29 9
British West Indian 146 157 224 261 158 622
Malaysian 145 111 86 90 48 72
Spanish American 145 117 27 8 0 19
Basque 144 124 108 130 136 96
Slovene 143 120 135 118 90 107
Albanian 130 78 96 76 99 56
Barbadian 130 122 47 100 106 246
German Russian 117 36 65 52 54 39
Australian 113 170 165 217 198 454
Celtic 112 115 164 160 137 92
Dutch West Indian 108 102 80 85 88 63
Sudanese 100 207 216 298 280 50
Macedonian 95 112 36 25 89 104
Afghan 89 91 67 21 24 14
Other South American 80 55 46 53 106 120
Bahamian 77 117 169 176 122 107
New Zealander 74 115 132 128 139 55
Pennsylvania German 67 61 54 86 82 56
Somali 53 76 75 90 92 65
Latvian 49 30 41 39 87 114
Alsatian 48 34 37 21 7 1
Icelander 48 392 292 212 425 195
Liberian 45 50 0 0 0 0
Other West Indian 43 44 33 5 32 20
Carpatho Rusyn 42 40 0 0 0 0
Estonian 37 61 39 37 35 29
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 36 25 3 3 3 0
Ugandan 35 61 93 50 129 159
Cape Verdean 33 30 43 42 49 4
Luxembourger 21 20 15 0 0 0
Senegalese 20 36 24 121 118 25
Cypriot 19 26 23 25 22 6
Maltese 15 7 13 12 19 16
Other Asian, specified 12 24 16 13 6 217
United States Virgin Islander 9 6 6 4 0 0
Sierra Leonean 8 8 8 0 0 0

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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