Oklahoma Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Oklahoma Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 2,813,794 2,823,497 2,828,569 2,837,772 2,844,070 2,809,793
Hispanic or Latino 371,459 381,467 394,879 407,521 417,906 431,467
American 336,020 321,254 301,752 292,546 280,817 258,654
Mexican 307,212 315,277 323,876 333,166 340,619 346,321
African American 278,571 281,295 283,821 287,959 286,356 287,856
American Indian 252,244 259,580 264,079 268,507 273,768 276,211
German 190,728 184,222 178,254 168,844 159,585 154,072
Irish 132,173 128,913 123,505 118,091 111,652 111,861
English 123,988 118,368 112,278 107,006 104,348 118,034
Some Other Race 98,885 102,292 105,686 106,757 106,709 109,614
Asian 74,570 77,541 80,670 83,392 85,239 87,033
European 34,758 35,557 35,686 39,914 45,814 48,969
Italian 23,533 23,902 23,775 23,070 22,918 23,348
Scottish 23,397 23,475 22,943 22,646 22,749 22,385
Scotch-Irish 17,666 17,076 16,394 16,200 15,615 15,028
French 17,380 15,857 14,912 14,530 12,921 11,833
Puerto Rican 13,806 13,385 13,612 14,028 13,939 14,836
Dutch 13,317 13,059 12,387 11,250 10,295 10,223
Subsaharan African 12,660 11,896 13,085 14,128 13,646 15,735
Asian Indian 12,602 13,421 14,046 15,260 15,078 15,336
Guatemalan 12,251 12,079 11,336 11,002 12,204 14,463
Polish 10,340 10,574 10,052 9,505 9,229 9,269
Chinese 10,140 10,924 11,100 11,748 11,313 11,101
Norwegian 8,858 8,863 8,632 8,909 8,767 8,228
Total Arab 8,156 7,837 7,296 7,536 7,011 6,523
Swedish 7,969 7,821 7,201 6,186 5,498 4,943
African 7,423 6,835 7,529 8,706 8,080 9,565
Spaniard 6,571 6,195 6,984 7,283 7,189 8,218
British 6,344 6,703 7,659 8,774 10,015 10,224
Filipino 6,248 6,428 6,593 6,622 6,902 7,199
Korean 6,113 6,386 6,247 5,927 6,199 6,090
Czech 6,097 5,909 5,576 5,388 5,214 5,921
All other Hispanic or Latino 6,081 7,668 8,718 10,275 11,377 12,581
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 5,553 5,986 5,677 5,420 4,969 4,802
Welsh 4,707 4,541 4,514 3,979 4,069 4,037
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 4,701 4,969 5,543 4,471 6,260 6,418
Salvadoran 4,455 4,687 5,941 6,039 6,268 6,186
Honduran 4,359 4,526 5,387 5,484 5,362 5,388
Hmong 3,897 3,510 3,569 4,039 4,486 5,244
Spanish 3,796 3,880 4,178 4,191 4,077 4,733
Dutch West Indian 3,644 3,761 3,369 2,873 2,300 1,949
French Canadian 3,404 3,368 3,256 3,016 3,060 3,207
Russian 3,155 3,367 3,259 3,261 3,133 3,011
Lebanese 2,926 2,368 1,851 2,070 1,928 1,725
Cuban 2,755 2,770 2,921 3,416 3,222 3,017
Iranian 2,628 2,635 2,244 2,260 2,346 2,555
Japanese 2,236 2,469 2,410 2,304 2,354 2,180
Colombian 2,171 2,212 2,558 2,555 2,505 2,789
Danish 2,145 2,118 2,117 2,221 2,130 2,005
Greek 2,098 2,012 2,065 1,833 1,814 1,703
Other Asian, not specified 2,016 2,267 2,295 2,299 2,272 2,230
Pakistani 1,987 2,238 2,216 2,588 2,910 2,732
Peruvian 1,932 1,982 2,268 2,383 2,588 2,598
Swiss 1,897 1,670 1,482 1,358 1,216 978
Scandinavian 1,821 1,929 2,534 2,897 3,062 3,253
Laotian 1,762 1,589 1,665 1,725 1,575 1,454
Venezuelan 1,728 1,761 1,739 2,143 2,450 3,122
Burmese 1,711 2,380 3,369 3,243 3,700 5,001
Portuguese 1,704 1,759 1,656 1,802 1,945 1,968
Arab 1,604 1,321 1,410 1,214 1,075 919
Canadian 1,600 1,644 1,622 1,556 1,550 1,486
Thai 1,568 1,249 1,165 1,322 1,615 1,647
Nigerian 1,546 1,510 1,604 1,946 1,938 2,456
Two or more Asian 1,403 1,439 1,490 1,661 1,574 1,901
Czechoslovakian 1,377 1,440 1,765 1,887 1,804 1,724
Other Arab 1,340 1,873 1,776 1,951 1,757 1,735
Ukrainian 1,286 1,286 1,542 1,766 1,778 1,865
Hungarian 1,257 1,166 1,138 1,206 1,128 1,258
Panamanian 1,107 1,081 907 812 1,035 1,137
Austrian 1,075 1,130 1,119 943 940 893
Northern European 1,037 1,233 1,162 1,930 2,878 3,242
Indonesian 933 323 290 323 265 491
Finnish 832 876 908 884 714 707
Kenyan 831 734 734 572 557 646
Cambodian 825 663 723 823 777 815
Dominican 795 999 1,033 1,156 1,123 1,963
Jamaican 707 771 838 1,055 1,207 1,246
Lithuanian 705 595 572 506 533 631
Eastern European 679 1,115 1,299 2,052 2,619 2,626
Romanian 672 810 747 793 789 642
Ghanaian 663 609 738 394 483 535
Nepalese 654 852 1,076 1,164 905 791
Ethiopian 606 868 870 986 750 885
Other Subsaharan African 603 508 584 525 562 487
Cajun 556 499 526 481 474 533
Iraqi 550 465 381 437 244 252
Pennsylvania German 539 595 699 604 654 692
Belgian 534 556 512 546 496 530
Bangladeshi 502 558 660 865 812 653
Jordanian 491 493 425 440 374 265
Brazilian 470 477 459 596 686 616
Turkish 455 423 416 358 450 616
Moroccan 454 476 486 394 479 507
Slovak 448 336 344 321 300 289
Costa Rican 447 522 482 541 654 780
Sudanese 436 257 320 387 409 70
West Indian 388 354 339 207 232 220
Ecuadorian 376 524 508 631 666 722
Yugoslavian 371 352 410 311 329 213
Nicaraguan 363 396 308 287 285 520
Alaska Native tribes 360 297 346 349 443 497
Taiwanese 350 374 391 594 602 714
Argentinean 339 326 503 617 853 784
Egyptian 339 347 410 457 426 477
Icelander 324 242 211 120 84 100
Chilean 316 413 493 411 376 325
Syrian 316 304 381 401 537 475
Armenian 315 300 215 185 176 224
Sri Lankan 289 340 323 215 172 32
Albanian 280 311 198 119 96 248
Croatian 278 262 244 326 270 355
Liberian 278 201 192 129 106 235
Australian 275 278 262 211 256 334
Haitian 269 559 573 582 561 622
Israeli 267 233 232 313 227 259
Malaysian 240 260 330 358 321 315
German Russian 232 263 256 206 126 130
Celtic 231 228 259 258 251 174
Bulgarian 228 208 200 142 120 198
Latvian 220 178 144 90 80 86
Bolivian 167 378 417 411 496 455
British West Indian 160 119 130 79 65 37
Slovene 159 182 173 200 156 227
Serbian 138 172 207 208 131 131
Palestinian 136 190 176 172 191 168
Basque 130 110 124 144 152 121
Slavic 125 152 163 211 224 204
Bahamian 122 155 145 275 149 113
Spanish American 120 126 161 182 131 147
Other Central American 114 101 274 207 178 181
Other South American 104 113 124 141 127 32
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 103 66 64 81 118 216
South African 102 106 157 185 293 256
Estonian 96 143 143 166 87 75
Belizean 95 136 161 203 267 194
Senegalese 77 73 138 62 124 120
New Zealander 64 48 51 39 21 19
Luxembourger 60 45 46 54 53 19
Cape Verdean 57 78 55 41 39 211
Macedonian 51 36 31 36 35 33
Paraguayan 50 14 85 94 79 99
Afghan 45 54 33 21 40 23
United States Virgin Islander 45 39 29 23 41 78
Uruguayan 44 52 66 66 103 70
Cypriot 28 37 55 41 9 9
Ugandan 25 98 127 118 253 164
Guyanese 24 40 36 32 29 18
Carpatho Rusyn 23 9 10 10 0 0
Barbadian 20 26 29 42 29 127
Mongolian 18 41 49 23 17 27
Maltese 8 11 9 0 0 1
Zimbabwean 8 13 31 71 52 51
Other Asian, specified 7 29 32 32 24 150
Somali 5 6 6 6 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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