Ohio Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Ohio Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 9,538,328 9,519,506 9,503,779 9,489,832 9,476,047 9,394,878
African American 1,412,045 1,421,943 1,428,230 1,438,271 1,446,193 1,442,655
German 1,153,462 1,129,072 1,098,411 1,052,803 1,000,683 967,805
American 877,544 817,654 776,473 744,602 719,461 670,222
Irish 391,062 380,142 370,413 359,331 340,212 337,671
Hispanic or Latino 390,970 400,932 414,490 431,327 443,415 459,939
English 337,751 326,806 312,303 297,802 282,680 313,569
Italian 267,840 261,642 256,259 250,297 243,968 237,901
Asian 216,170 224,520 235,878 249,741 258,199 268,527
Mexican 192,719 192,026 194,874 200,060 201,921 206,126
Polish 142,083 138,330 135,286 131,835 129,768 127,339
Puerto Rican 110,348 114,036 118,305 124,145 128,745 131,458
Some Other Race 97,516 98,088 103,726 109,792 112,836 129,717
Subsaharan African 87,981 86,012 87,988 97,408 103,497 110,772
European 82,842 88,737 94,562 110,580 131,534 136,937
Asian Indian 71,128 73,098 78,583 84,544 89,485 92,791
Scottish 64,127 63,043 63,643 63,320 61,121 58,372
Hungarian 58,232 56,567 55,655 54,059 51,856 50,520
Total Arab 51,651 53,097 54,401 56,028 53,557 53,798
Chinese 50,546 51,743 52,988 53,455 54,152 55,018
African 48,222 46,746 48,483 53,561 57,180 59,589
Slovak 44,571 42,306 39,945 37,413 36,056 34,021
Scotch-Irish 43,300 42,487 41,067 41,122 39,064 38,047
French 41,665 39,499 38,001 36,216 34,103 32,293
Dutch 34,076 32,807 31,610 29,745 27,533 25,872
Welsh 26,502 26,117 26,257 25,101 24,302 22,921
Greek 24,742 24,670 23,499 23,689 23,397 21,889
Russian 24,732 23,753 22,386 21,889 21,042 19,395
Pennsylvania German 19,742 20,886 23,033 24,787 27,453 26,858
Ukrainian 19,606 19,713 19,788 18,689 18,958 17,904
Swiss 19,285 19,330 18,208 17,739 16,751 17,014
Slovene 18,987 18,396 17,930 17,190 16,310 14,942
British 18,525 19,554 21,402 23,681 26,845 24,716
Filipino 16,582 16,745 17,149 18,485 19,845 21,455
Czech 16,483 15,922 15,391 14,813 14,256 13,105
Korean 16,417 16,074 15,792 15,985 15,831 15,847
Swedish 15,689 15,009 14,601 13,929 13,480 12,588
Lebanese 14,100 13,264 13,360 13,282 12,305 11,427
Croatian 13,623 12,806 12,417 12,495 12,216 12,029
American Indian 13,573 13,825 14,028 15,436 14,370 13,194
Somali 12,997 12,106 11,565 13,656 13,388 14,964
Norwegian 12,914 13,563 13,865 13,697 13,345 12,076
Romanian 12,706 12,026 11,673 12,067 11,687 11,137
Guatemalan 11,301 12,433 12,719 13,430 14,423 14,292
French Canadian 10,688 9,991 10,097 9,271 9,099 8,651
Japanese 10,351 10,127 10,140 10,408 9,599 10,180
Arab 10,329 9,082 8,878 8,761 8,661 7,683
All other Hispanic or Latino 9,546 11,305 12,156 13,015 15,346 18,485
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 9,523 9,762 9,981 10,296 10,576 10,776
Eastern European 8,847 10,556 12,456 15,980 19,509 22,111
Cuban 8,676 9,541 9,169 10,329 10,549 10,561
Salvadoran 8,558 9,232 9,838 10,482 10,964 12,968
Other Arab 8,396 10,464 10,778 11,366 9,818 9,846
Dominican 8,237 8,522 10,128 11,209 11,483 10,623
Serbian 7,990 7,949 7,803 7,290 7,319 6,914
Czechoslovakian 7,746 7,674 7,567 7,183 7,042 7,176
Spaniard 7,512 8,380 8,424 8,970 9,141 10,525
Lithuanian 7,497 7,196 6,933 6,581 6,407 6,306
Canadian 6,788 6,275 6,313 6,364 5,810 5,680
Colombian 6,716 6,572 7,147 7,336 6,561 6,895
Other Subsaharan African 6,297 6,346 6,146 6,332 7,617 7,421
Ethiopian 5,720 5,696 5,920 7,361 7,411 8,216
Jamaican 5,692 5,692 5,956 5,787 5,656 5,544
Finnish 5,365 5,374 5,395 5,036 4,823 4,448
Cambodian 5,310 5,938 5,375 5,162 5,270 4,415
Austrian 5,133 5,189 4,963 4,938 4,929 4,819
Palestinian 5,080 6,320 6,965 7,660 7,516 8,575
Yugoslavian 5,016 4,166 3,981 4,087 3,719 3,246
Spanish 4,982 4,825 4,865 4,803 4,682 5,953
Ghanaian 4,854 4,884 4,968 5,144 5,567 6,381
Northern European 4,632 4,805 4,581 5,432 6,136 6,260
Iranian 4,523 4,472 4,147 4,022 3,615 3,433
Danish 4,299 4,091 3,716 3,943 3,722 3,543
Peruvian 4,221 4,205 5,261 6,192 6,206 5,595
Honduran 4,209 4,476 5,409 5,659 6,141 6,691
Nigerian 4,204 4,569 5,612 6,025 6,024 6,706
Nepalese 4,198 6,473 8,813 10,555 12,370 12,995
Egyptian 4,128 4,200 4,184 3,611 3,702 4,214
Pakistani 4,115 4,702 5,079 5,131 5,507 6,077
Turkish 3,934 4,999 5,422 5,134 4,681 3,976
Albanian 3,580 3,379 3,359 3,212 3,627 2,735
Laotian 3,546 4,088 4,050 4,037 4,104 4,059
Two or more Asian 3,373 3,102 3,584 3,355 3,598 3,678
Scandinavian 3,314 3,573 4,173 4,759 5,604 6,636
Syrian 3,134 3,041 3,109 3,208 2,984 3,228
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 3,060 3,248 3,499 3,591 3,880 3,907
Macedonian 3,003 2,858 2,958 2,996 2,835 2,764
Venezuelan 2,946 3,028 3,193 2,944 3,452 4,241
Taiwanese 2,931 2,607 2,535 2,618 2,490 2,600
Belgian 2,836 2,619 2,394 2,434 2,201 1,892
Thai 2,629 2,796 2,646 2,729 3,033 2,872
Portuguese 2,508 2,374 2,646 2,620 2,543 2,304
Slavic 2,495 2,699 2,729 2,293 2,122 2,226
Brazilian 2,371 2,296 2,255 2,130 1,921 2,072
Jordanian 2,266 2,807 3,138 3,457 3,426 3,729
Panamanian 2,195 2,228 2,300 2,307 2,425 2,852
Moroccan 2,141 2,336 2,720 3,015 3,523 2,940
Ecuadorian 2,103 2,420 2,374 2,224 2,402 3,210
Iraqi 2,077 1,583 1,269 1,668 1,622 2,156
Argentinean 2,052 2,196 2,216 2,090 1,937 1,954
Other Asian, not specified 2,043 2,068 2,362 3,051 3,125 4,428
Bhutanese 1,978 3,637 4,732 5,428 4,756 5,131
Armenian 1,677 1,759 1,789 1,780 1,861 1,880
Kenyan 1,669 1,610 1,221 1,072 1,017 1,345
Bulgarian 1,668 1,719 1,834 1,788 1,528 1,381
Burmese 1,667 1,597 1,688 2,060 2,071 1,970
Haitian 1,528 1,642 1,319 1,717 2,043 2,080
Latvian 1,503 1,484 1,475 1,260 1,065 1,162
Nicaraguan 1,233 1,574 1,713 1,631 2,157 2,097
Indonesian 1,177 1,223 1,340 1,326 1,320 1,467
Israeli 1,168 996 866 828 764 1,016
Chilean 1,063 1,402 1,322 1,414 1,516 1,566
Sri Lankan 1,012 950 1,241 1,344 1,444 1,394
West Indian 936 883 966 1,205 1,246 1,185
Liberian 922 1,147 999 1,084 1,504 1,939
Bangladeshi 890 1,053 1,217 1,742 1,878 1,778
Guyanese 869 800 917 862 818 544
Sierra Leonean 785 805 724 509 632 1,146
Costa Rican 777 826 1,105 1,212 1,500 1,964
Celtic 768 804 903 722 681 646
Senegalese 703 719 708 640 772 808
Australian 671 659 988 1,132 1,151 1,280
South African 615 478 531 667 673 625
Estonian 607 475 472 407 462 369
Hmong 589 692 615 698 603 369
Carpatho Rusyn 546 489 420 414 209 173
Bolivian 475 580 878 813 790 891
Malaysian 469 462 524 528 525 744
Sudanese 435 260 500 702 952 884
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 416 513 566 647 714 930
Afghan 386 447 558 641 594 781
Alaska Native tribes 374 424 521 558 554 251
Other South American 350 300 335 291 263 22
Cajun 349 318 237 184 97 114
Uruguayan 324 403 350 331 425 390
German Russian 311 170 210 169 126 161
Dutch West Indian 306 289 281 44 41 36
Paraguayan 266 266 273 297 293 324
Icelander 237 304 294 258 306 298
Alsatian 221 234 194 241 285 186
New Zealander 219 211 220 236 240 270
British West Indian 207 251 304 301 247 171
Zimbabwean 205 233 219 192 323 362
Ugandan 198 252 223 239 246 206
Mongolian 194 169 121 96 102 84
Luxembourger 191 118 130 110 94 107
Cape Verdean 155 161 169 224 191 180
Barbadian 155 212 186 223 203 216
Maltese 154 135 201 118 172 149
Cypriot 145 140 158 81 97 114
Bahamian 141 72 97 127 187 164
Spanish American 136 117 95 60 53 209
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 118 80 54 51 18 11
Other Asian, specified 72 77 54 29 28 1,756
Basque 67 66 29 45 28 7
United States Virgin Islander 67 60 62 0 0 36
Belizean 53 56 109 93 90 249
Okinawan 44 25 24 21 0 0
Other Central American 25 39 41 83 40 47
Other West Indian 17 66 65 66 46 44
Bermudan 5 26 70 86 103 121
Soviet Union 4 10 13 12 11 7

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