Utah Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Utah Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 2,544,735 2,572,595 2,600,077 2,632,056 2,676,482 2,682,881
Hispanic or Latino 389,856 397,915 409,311 422,123 434,832 446,067
English 320,797 315,449 304,515 290,166 276,491 301,170
Mexican 287,428 291,895 299,819 306,375 315,278 314,819
American 162,538 156,528 147,739 142,022 137,628 123,960
Some Other Race 129,907 141,374 150,596 157,990 156,229 160,786
European 104,409 110,159 115,165 129,296 138,167 136,342
German 89,998 87,385 83,568 79,399 76,474 77,307
Asian 64,102 66,039 67,545 69,810 71,977 73,190
Irish 42,411 41,517 40,388 38,111 37,297 41,175
Danish 38,727 38,929 37,762 35,003 34,359 32,625
Scottish 33,643 33,200 32,702 30,987 29,941 29,443
African American 31,909 32,512 33,619 35,862 36,849 38,059
Swedish 27,799 26,701 26,385 25,628 23,718 23,764
American Indian 27,772 27,569 27,963 28,886 29,640 28,935
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 26,147 26,411 26,742 27,096 27,554 29,450
Italian 25,723 24,692 25,098 24,220 23,979 24,774
Norwegian 23,322 23,201 23,008 22,779 22,661 21,380
British 20,363 20,588 22,224 25,783 28,424 29,403
Dutch 19,579 19,269 18,521 17,295 16,494 15,283
All other Hispanic or Latino 12,907 13,605 14,849 14,765 15,486 16,653
Scandinavian 12,697 13,770 14,946 15,808 16,928 16,594
Chinese 12,565 13,240 14,384 13,977 14,363 14,081
Salvadoran 12,364 12,837 13,206 13,064 12,901 14,216
Welsh 12,016 12,153 12,122 11,986 11,557 11,050
Spaniard 10,749 10,692 11,566 12,144 11,820 13,004
French 9,239 9,555 9,476 9,277 8,964 8,302
Subsaharan African 9,026 8,506 9,447 10,595 11,674 11,804
Swiss 8,785 8,634 8,269 7,921 7,560 7,113
Spanish 8,581 8,459 7,423 7,991 7,410 10,100
Guatemalan 7,998 8,323 8,627 8,524 9,173 9,310
Peruvian 7,878 7,966 7,791 8,942 9,221 11,242
Puerto Rican 7,594 8,678 9,952 10,898 11,738 12,716
Scotch-Irish 7,563 8,106 7,310 7,321 7,658 7,515
Polish 7,386 6,982 6,990 6,623 6,466 6,376
Asian Indian 7,379 8,632 9,046 10,258 11,328 12,249
Filipino 7,299 6,804 7,157 7,780 8,592 8,222
Japanese 6,885 6,883 6,396 5,992 6,356 5,833
Argentinean 5,965 5,814 5,371 5,672 5,325 5,972
Korean 5,836 6,332 5,894 5,764 5,825 6,072
Chilean 5,451 4,805 4,678 4,731 4,853 4,347
Northern European 5,153 5,436 6,849 7,309 8,431 8,153
Greek 5,076 5,025 5,152 5,365 4,903 4,683
Canadian 4,476 4,657 5,084 4,948 4,898 4,838
Colombian 4,175 4,240 4,312 4,871 6,011 5,637
African 4,127 3,421 3,222 3,288 3,048 3,074
Total Arab 4,112 4,797 4,643 4,896 4,549 4,848
Yugoslavian 3,873 3,162 2,828 2,533 3,311 2,928
Russian 3,272 3,563 3,598 3,426 3,028 3,032
Venezuelan 2,935 3,297 3,758 5,362 6,159 7,619
Laotian 2,840 2,661 3,031 2,915 2,600 1,937
French Canadian 2,745 2,714 2,947 2,685 2,737 2,808
Honduran 2,697 3,245 3,922 4,158 4,197 4,101
Ecuadorian 2,561 3,225 3,320 3,537 3,982 4,432
Cuban 2,420 2,418 2,432 2,735 2,862 3,399
Cambodian 2,279 2,248 2,182 2,049 2,191 2,013
Dominican 2,248 2,287 2,012 2,314 2,186 2,262
Brazilian 2,005 2,340 2,686 3,219 4,040 4,012
Czech 1,774 1,653 1,683 1,808 1,748 1,892
Iranian 1,729 1,412 1,539 1,561 1,666 2,442
Nepalese 1,721 2,257 1,678 1,527 1,274 1,740
Two or more Asian 1,720 2,018 2,092 2,017 2,095 2,348
Thai 1,711 1,662 1,603 2,235 2,421 2,357
Armenian 1,647 1,611 1,714 1,799 1,655 1,696
Finnish 1,593 1,476 1,504 1,413 1,333 1,132
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1,516 1,785 1,810 1,737 1,493 1,256
Burmese 1,483 1,878 1,481 1,500 1,145 1,418
Portuguese 1,422 1,476 1,432 1,505 1,638 1,859
Nicaraguan 1,394 1,550 1,199 1,133 946 968
Somali 1,363 1,685 2,194 2,442 3,075 2,705
Bolivian 1,284 1,511 1,401 1,480 1,679 1,787
Other Arab 1,270 1,483 1,550 1,296 1,000 994
Austrian 1,191 1,175 1,018 830 839 727
Eastern European 1,181 1,375 1,801 2,043 2,428 2,676
Hungarian 1,181 1,327 1,533 1,514 1,262 1,465
Ukrainian 1,169 1,369 1,270 1,281 1,230 1,106
Icelander 1,133 1,053 959 898 848 847
Iraqi 1,116 1,460 1,554 1,904 1,720 1,815
Uruguayan 1,063 991 1,283 1,201 1,173 991
Croatian 971 1,020 1,084 907 972 1,246
Basque 779 801 740 761 764 741
Australian 760 883 947 824 762 805
Romanian 739 782 762 681 813 972
Sudanese 730 735 774 1,114 1,253 1,334
Pakistani 712 577 674 751 1,016 1,364
Other Asian, not specified 704 554 869 1,392 1,729 2,091
Lebanese 671 752 711 643 645 679
Taiwanese 630 591 677 670 538 539
Afghan 595 749 632 850 608 474
Costa Rican 590 792 880 713 810 1,016
Lithuanian 573 534 493 589 482 307
Belgian 535 501 605 562 628 612
Bhutanese 516 646 652 514 425 224
Turkish 513 467 496 462 445 454
Panamanian 511 432 629 598 604 576
Slovene 510 517 512 193 235 254
Other Subsaharan African 510 605 969 1,230 1,547 2,052
South African 506 480 483 368 338 280
Slovak 493 515 508 522 523 410
Czechoslovakian 484 459 460 469 419 437
Ethiopian 461 724 687 708 838 836
Nigerian 458 380 407 483 579 354
Ghanaian 437 145 265 345 379 303
Slavic 431 484 546 508 376 290
Haitian 411 550 565 447 247 301
Jamaican 398 490 519 582 645 487
West Indian 355 432 358 345 169 81
Alaska Native tribes 340 483 453 243 270 317
Arab 329 276 261 277 332 309
Indonesian 325 339 169 507 579 481
Mongolian 319 297 284 294 367 273
Spanish American 318 266 261 323 319 294
Bulgarian 289 450 415 433 395 333
Albanian 280 221 251 78 102 160
Other Central American 274 87 128 165 278 255
Other South American 254 234 244 165 123 143
Serbian 240 283 318 371 633 546
New Zealander 238 272 352 269 273 260
Palestinian 222 259 203 154 151 157
Paraguayan 217 266 248 262 298 208
Kenyan 212 197 272 288 357 628
Moroccan 209 265 52 52 97 119
Bangladeshi 205 260 271 92 118 146
Celtic 175 319 359 283 321 275
Egyptian 160 174 145 374 413 508
Hmong 135 80 106 159 241 357
Israeli 132 159 133 134 126 133
Syrian 108 92 98 103 110 168
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 100 54 38 63 81 75
Pennsylvania German 95 152 97 83 100 120
Okinawan 90 71 57 58 69 0
Bahamian 85 97 21 28 18 36
Estonian 82 91 80 63 21 13
British West Indian 81 52 74 57 33 34
Liberian 77 15 52 111 103 116
Ugandan 73 64 60 60 0 39
Sri Lankan 68 72 103 128 129 109
Cajun 67 90 85 75 108 208
Latvian 59 30 64 65 121 120
Sierra Leonean 59 43 34 140 144 24
Malaysian 41 97 161 170 211 340
German Russian 34 36 66 58 44 44
Other West Indian 32 30 28 15 15 0
Guyanese 31 39 47 18 35 50
Jordanian 27 36 69 93 81 99
Belizean 24 52 104 88 155 158
Soviet Union 22 27 42 43 30 0
Dutch West Indian 16 18 29 24 30 39
Cape Verdean 13 12 28 18 13 4
Barbadian 12 8 74 88 100 45
Alsatian 8 8 7 7 8 0
Luxembourger 8 29 29 27 18 18
Macedonian 8 9 13 0 10 13
Bermudan 2 2 0 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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