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 .