New Hampshire Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

New Hampshire Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 1,241,313 1,243,594 1,244,260 1,250,014 1,252,128 1,246,602
Irish 79,218 79,145 76,394 74,303 71,702 74,672
English 71,439 67,942 66,408 63,243 61,622 64,613
French Canadian 62,826 63,210 63,341 64,285 65,018 60,412
American 62,207 57,592 53,123 50,377 49,556 46,984
French 61,647 59,752 55,525 51,223 46,282 43,347
Hispanic or Latino 42,141 43,500 45,266 48,356 50,493 52,792
Italian 40,301 39,959 38,994 38,229 37,026 37,801
Asian 31,364 32,094 33,313 36,124 36,180 36,581
German 27,254 26,672 25,858 24,533 23,281 22,129
African American 17,439 17,483 18,632 20,516 21,546 21,045
Polish 15,779 15,339 14,646 13,849 13,636 12,557
Scottish 15,065 14,348 13,452 12,701 11,902 11,604
Puerto Rican 12,729 12,857 13,675 15,850 17,483 16,894
European 12,401 12,636 12,789 13,794 14,607 14,278
Mexican 10,002 9,642 9,585 8,686 8,262 9,190
Asian Indian 9,590 9,346 10,015 10,458 10,328 10,026
Canadian 9,313 9,069 8,122 7,607 6,770 6,643
Some Other Race 7,273 7,112 7,016 6,629 7,510 8,543
Chinese 6,884 6,993 6,924 7,395 7,421 7,454
Greek 6,771 7,011 6,674 6,679 6,155 6,540
Swedish 6,570 6,017 5,675 5,151 4,772 4,067
Scotch-Irish 5,894 5,744 5,262 5,145 5,278 5,447
Portuguese 5,662 5,683 6,000 5,471 6,342 6,163
Total Arab 4,843 4,555 4,710 4,176 3,703 3,534
Dominican 4,578 5,845 6,495 7,197 7,833 9,123
Subsaharan African 4,522 4,630 5,079 6,263 6,420 6,155
British 3,736 3,996 4,410 4,578 5,058 4,861
Russian 3,712 3,692 3,609 3,667 3,441 3,207
Finnish 3,334 3,316 3,111 3,185 2,902 2,614
Dutch 2,812 2,606 2,861 2,820 2,539 2,769
Norwegian 2,723 2,784 2,692 2,643 2,663 2,973
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 2,439 2,160 2,319 2,234 2,397 2,017
Filipino 2,389 2,584 2,747 3,022 3,286 3,369
Korean 2,284 2,389 2,440 2,433 2,483 2,916
Lebanese 2,211 1,992 2,022 1,971 1,848 1,559
Colombian 2,198 2,029 2,273 2,137 2,087 2,517
Lithuanian 2,068 2,018 2,156 2,108 2,170 1,773
Cuban 1,730 1,778 1,722 2,107 2,057 2,273
Welsh 1,618 1,575 1,766 1,559 1,411 1,257
Nepalese 1,613 1,691 1,924 2,507 2,313 2,420
Brazilian 1,575 1,599 1,573 1,349 1,340 1,438
American Indian 1,512 1,500 1,635 1,543 1,475 1,427
Yugoslavian 1,493 1,295 1,094 837 781 1,055
Guatemalan 1,417 1,257 1,005 1,262 1,323 830
Haitian 1,381 1,188 1,240 1,123 1,034 737
Ukrainian 1,356 1,666 1,575 1,653 1,674 1,497
Spaniard 1,291 1,405 1,375 1,619 1,531 1,470
Eastern European 1,234 1,257 1,817 2,043 2,515 2,699
African 1,225 1,429 1,488 2,284 2,479 2,308
Hungarian 1,214 1,107 938 952 870 855
Salvadoran 1,206 1,085 1,176 997 1,043 1,251
Romanian 1,194 1,035 1,009 1,079 741 675
All other Hispanic or Latino 1,165 1,417 1,690 1,787 2,268 3,013
Armenian 1,160 1,285 1,129 1,280 1,298 1,304
Cambodian 1,036 1,123 957 756 759 1,044
Northern European 944 1,051 1,216 1,260 1,947 1,862
Scandinavian 942 981 1,143 1,231 1,600 1,627
Indonesian 926 1,063 1,071 1,185 1,025 856
Honduran 901 945 1,049 1,276 1,591 1,420
Czech 901 877 816 657 625 599
Danish 879 821 884 836 833 767
Spanish 872 780 743 515 509 692
Ecuadorian 835 858 996 982 687 665
Pakistani 777 834 788 679 519 515
Other Arab 775 820 866 473 390 346
Jamaican 764 664 843 910 1,111 912
Japanese 738 877 866 944 970 878
Swiss 714 656 601 526 409 501
Two or more Asian 695 709 761 849 814 803
Laotian 677 675 442 595 618 800
Uruguayan 623 758 615 686 651 622
Austrian 617 721 777 694 681 589
Other Subsaharan African 596 645 639 814 786 700
Somali 509 231 21 406 344 302
Slovak 492 528 506 420 380 392
Sudanese 489 592 1,019 904 1,060 1,126
Peruvian 467 501 555 699 802 921
Jordanian 448 137 80 67 79 30
Chilean 444 445 471 574 443 383
Albanian 438 487 553 780 917 959
Thai 437 435 669 813 957 640
Zimbabwean 421 405 440 294 219 130
Bhutanese 418 439 507 772 721 546
Turkish 411 483 428 675 483 404
Moroccan 367 211 220 196 172 308
South African 340 278 245 155 125 53
Belgian 320 326 256 231 265 221
Argentinean 318 238 287 434 408 292
Iraqi 315 474 630 572 471 576
Kenyan 307 419 343 362 374 270
Panamanian 305 312 300 352 295 364
Other Asian, not specified 295 366 334 334 453 613
Venezuelan 294 450 371 263 322 241
Costa Rican 285 344 363 470 517 286
Arab 284 213 273 254 167 98
Egyptian 258 523 508 495 405 369
Iranian 243 351 335 479 470 509
Croatian 239 241 244 295 258 110
Ethiopian 230 224 268 244 283 361
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 228 229 289 359 443 424
Taiwanese 219 247 318 299 291 349
Czechoslovakian 212 165 170 213 120 95
Bulgarian 208 252 252 231 246 287
Australian 202 133 65 69 78 95
Bangladeshi 201 63 140 144 167 85
Latvian 200 197 219 196 201 156
Nigerian 188 181 296 279 194 201
Israeli 184 204 161 128 134 40
Nicaraguan 178 238 196 233 248 300
Celtic 172 209 351 361 567 463
Slavic 171 154 85 77 78 108
Paraguayan 150 174 143 55 64 11
Bolivian 138 142 181 175 69 22
Syrian 133 113 91 98 125 204
West Indian 128 127 42 81 107 149
Pennsylvania German 108 118 164 191 220 140
Serbian 94 116 169 253 289 380
Malaysian 81 100 59 77 68 50
Maltese 68 65 37 39 0 0
Cajun 67 78 49 62 59 75
Cape Verdean 62 54 60 109 128 246
Liberian 57 90 107 153 126 118
Belizean 55 51 31 33 9 7
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 54 60 70 33 56 57
Palestinian 52 72 20 50 46 44
Ghanaian 45 29 67 173 225 282
Burmese 33 31 25 36 159 152
Sri Lankan 33 42 37 36 19 16
Estonian 33 26 64 125 132 129
Icelander 32 5 3 4 13 11
Macedonian 32 13 16 0 0 0
Senegalese 32 28 6 0 0 0
Slovene 29 24 26 43 36 31
British West Indian 27 45 51 12 23 22
Cypriot 25 17 17 0 0 0
Bahamian 24 20 0 0 2 4
Ugandan 21 25 80 86 77 58
Alsatian 17 19 32 17 19 18
Other South American 15 0 0 0 0 12
Luxembourger 15 24 25 46 52 34
Hmong 14 24 23 5 7 12
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 13 0 0 0 0 0
Basque 8 15 10 8 7 10
Dutch West Indian 6 5 3 0 0 8
Alaska Native tribes 5 15 23 26 26 38
Mongolian 4 30 35 28 29 32

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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