Virginia Ancestry and Population Demographic Data
On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in Virginia, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.
Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Virginia 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.
Virginia Ancestry Data
Ancestry |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
White |
5,695,147 |
5,712,958 |
5,720,209 |
5,722,660 |
5,717,617 |
5,643,436 |
African American |
1,589,345 |
1,596,352 |
1,605,447 |
1,613,285 |
1,621,592 |
1,620,649 |
American |
800,346 |
774,389 |
736,054 |
704,981 |
705,685 |
686,589 |
Hispanic or Latino |
709,156 |
725,092 |
749,458 |
771,177 |
792,001 |
810,770 |
Asian |
492,973 |
502,878 |
520,119 |
531,503 |
541,133 |
570,398 |
English |
375,019 |
356,543 |
334,082 |
315,081 |
294,295 |
320,503 |
German |
294,488 |
283,409 |
273,501 |
261,238 |
244,553 |
235,913 |
Irish |
244,610 |
238,677 |
230,971 |
223,311 |
212,996 |
214,416 |
Some Other Race |
183,124 |
190,972 |
200,265 |
208,464 |
223,794 |
240,542 |
Mexican |
171,730 |
171,758 |
172,816 |
173,046 |
180,583 |
184,600 |
Salvadoran |
153,060 |
152,541 |
162,803 |
168,136 |
170,670 |
167,997 |
Subsaharan African |
144,627 |
144,928 |
152,727 |
161,490 |
168,152 |
166,932 |
Asian Indian |
120,754 |
125,396 |
131,199 |
141,695 |
144,917 |
152,567 |
Italian |
107,870 |
105,371 |
102,082 |
98,292 |
96,149 |
96,787 |
European |
100,604 |
103,984 |
108,710 |
122,750 |
135,346 |
139,831 |
Puerto Rican |
91,027 |
95,249 |
96,604 |
99,948 |
103,443 |
106,085 |
African |
83,029 |
79,264 |
83,430 |
89,992 |
92,108 |
85,228 |
Filipino |
72,616 |
72,606 |
72,676 |
73,260 |
72,758 |
74,741 |
Korean |
70,813 |
69,101 |
72,115 |
71,695 |
71,673 |
75,038 |
Chinese |
66,040 |
68,793 |
72,127 |
73,614 |
75,893 |
74,365 |
Scotch-Irish |
65,194 |
64,346 |
62,724 |
60,485 |
55,895 |
51,839 |
Scottish |
58,059 |
56,902 |
55,983 |
54,210 |
51,485 |
49,722 |
Total Arab |
52,035 |
54,754 |
54,437 |
54,223 |
54,286 |
58,687 |
Polish |
44,817 |
44,363 |
42,513 |
41,834 |
39,303 |
39,406 |
Honduran |
38,571 |
45,066 |
46,011 |
49,241 |
49,622 |
47,322 |
Guatemalan |
38,142 |
40,680 |
43,244 |
45,287 |
47,109 |
50,977 |
Bolivian |
37,526 |
38,408 |
37,894 |
37,409 |
36,476 |
34,850 |
Peruvian |
35,047 |
33,664 |
36,013 |
36,969 |
39,208 |
38,927 |
Pakistani |
32,250 |
33,452 |
34,656 |
32,474 |
32,924 |
35,252 |
French |
30,750 |
29,297 |
27,696 |
26,071 |
24,233 |
23,807 |
British |
27,612 |
28,439 |
30,080 |
32,403 |
34,872 |
33,168 |
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) |
24,719 |
24,684 |
25,951 |
27,131 |
28,642 |
27,714 |
Ethiopian |
23,860 |
26,378 |
29,888 |
29,630 |
31,439 |
32,542 |
Russian |
20,250 |
19,092 |
18,639 |
17,771 |
16,920 |
16,895 |
All other Hispanic or Latino |
19,466 |
20,743 |
23,290 |
26,070 |
27,912 |
34,631 |
Cuban |
18,947 |
19,306 |
20,143 |
20,250 |
20,812 |
21,461 |
Dutch |
18,638 |
17,191 |
17,008 |
15,923 |
14,968 |
12,957 |
Colombian |
17,557 |
18,416 |
19,883 |
20,783 |
21,536 |
23,426 |
Iranian |
16,948 |
17,375 |
17,300 |
16,714 |
15,555 |
15,480 |
American Indian |
15,634 |
14,726 |
15,696 |
16,222 |
16,825 |
15,594 |
Norwegian |
15,328 |
15,008 |
15,363 |
14,892 |
14,543 |
13,569 |
Greek |
15,206 |
15,223 |
13,735 |
13,781 |
13,266 |
13,032 |
Spaniard |
13,921 |
13,243 |
13,934 |
14,162 |
14,493 |
17,254 |
Swedish |
13,156 |
12,907 |
12,357 |
11,910 |
11,488 |
10,213 |
French Canadian |
13,049 |
12,948 |
12,449 |
12,054 |
11,498 |
10,627 |
Dominican |
12,637 |
13,459 |
14,143 |
15,838 |
17,205 |
16,615 |
Ghanaian |
12,281 |
11,778 |
12,386 |
13,597 |
14,188 |
14,817 |
Welsh |
12,232 |
12,182 |
11,708 |
11,257 |
11,303 |
10,507 |
Afghan |
11,657 |
13,776 |
15,391 |
17,079 |
19,588 |
18,635 |
Jamaican |
11,508 |
11,248 |
11,891 |
11,785 |
12,789 |
12,647 |
Other Arab |
11,490 |
12,686 |
13,422 |
13,308 |
12,297 |
12,693 |
Japanese |
11,005 |
11,434 |
12,147 |
12,340 |
11,900 |
10,604 |
Two or more Asian |
8,940 |
9,240 |
9,458 |
9,762 |
10,323 |
20,126 |
Arab |
8,696 |
8,798 |
7,484 |
6,347 |
6,053 |
5,941 |
Panamanian |
8,657 |
8,692 |
9,163 |
8,900 |
8,925 |
8,750 |
Egyptian |
8,526 |
9,369 |
9,752 |
10,116 |
10,325 |
10,626 |
Ukrainian |
8,379 |
9,027 |
8,766 |
8,569 |
8,541 |
8,551 |
Hungarian |
8,250 |
8,450 |
8,363 |
8,002 |
7,498 |
6,884 |
Argentinean |
8,242 |
9,007 |
8,922 |
8,295 |
7,648 |
7,387 |
Spanish |
8,144 |
7,208 |
6,702 |
6,855 |
6,603 |
7,573 |
Nicaraguan |
7,774 |
8,302 |
8,145 |
7,953 |
8,479 |
9,664 |
Ecuadorian |
7,764 |
8,345 |
8,302 |
8,725 |
7,916 |
9,176 |
Thai |
7,737 |
8,197 |
8,391 |
8,631 |
8,771 |
8,918 |
Eastern European |
7,615 |
8,462 |
9,470 |
11,221 |
13,012 |
13,532 |
Nepalese |
7,499 |
7,611 |
8,405 |
7,927 |
8,577 |
8,167 |
Cambodian |
7,425 |
8,039 |
8,236 |
7,593 |
8,480 |
7,564 |
Bangladeshi |
7,394 |
7,794 |
8,289 |
8,522 |
8,735 |
8,306 |
Lebanese |
7,241 |
7,078 |
7,384 |
7,057 |
7,098 |
8,501 |
Northern European |
7,093 |
7,531 |
8,237 |
9,006 |
11,021 |
10,318 |
Venezuelan |
6,944 |
6,620 |
6,956 |
7,981 |
8,295 |
8,283 |
Canadian |
6,918 |
6,426 |
5,959 |
5,573 |
5,161 |
5,383 |
Other Subsaharan African |
6,204 |
5,336 |
5,336 |
5,365 |
6,131 |
8,447 |
Portuguese |
6,007 |
6,070 |
5,219 |
5,793 |
5,843 |
5,631 |
Turkish |
5,664 |
6,284 |
6,855 |
6,174 |
7,110 |
8,365 |
Moroccan |
5,544 |
5,365 |
5,404 |
6,266 |
7,163 |
7,475 |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander |
5,304 |
5,494 |
5,469 |
5,677 |
6,179 |
5,994 |
Czech |
5,070 |
4,953 |
4,953 |
4,598 |
4,496 |
4,248 |
Other Asian, not specified |
5,028 |
5,427 |
6,173 |
7,117 |
7,014 |
9,251 |
Slovak |
4,891 |
4,580 |
4,304 |
4,577 |
4,446 |
4,010 |
Haitian |
4,719 |
4,813 |
4,589 |
4,827 |
4,779 |
5,038 |
Romanian |
4,710 |
4,431 |
4,639 |
4,594 |
4,460 |
4,288 |
Chilean |
4,685 |
4,819 |
4,818 |
4,569 |
4,747 |
5,632 |
Nigerian |
4,615 |
5,282 |
5,319 |
6,023 |
6,674 |
7,430 |
Swiss |
4,491 |
4,288 |
4,257 |
4,043 |
4,280 |
4,032 |
Scandinavian |
4,406 |
4,730 |
5,000 |
5,617 |
5,941 |
5,907 |
Danish |
4,356 |
4,370 |
4,523 |
4,668 |
4,539 |
4,561 |
Lithuanian |
3,994 |
3,650 |
3,485 |
3,610 |
3,308 |
3,313 |
Iraqi |
3,900 |
4,729 |
4,952 |
4,839 |
4,868 |
5,160 |
Brazilian |
3,708 |
3,726 |
4,005 |
4,058 |
4,640 |
4,547 |
Costa Rican |
3,548 |
3,914 |
3,866 |
3,987 |
3,772 |
3,743 |
Sudanese |
3,446 |
4,300 |
3,702 |
4,439 |
3,769 |
3,852 |
Palestinian |
3,394 |
3,396 |
3,231 |
2,690 |
2,780 |
3,002 |
Austrian |
3,372 |
3,473 |
3,590 |
3,477 |
3,234 |
3,300 |
Yugoslavian |
3,166 |
3,033 |
3,259 |
2,954 |
2,872 |
2,841 |
Sierra Leonean |
3,157 |
3,413 |
3,240 |
3,211 |
3,380 |
3,852 |
Trinidadian and Tobagonian |
3,037 |
2,866 |
3,122 |
3,063 |
3,161 |
2,849 |
Somali |
2,979 |
3,695 |
3,975 |
3,174 |
3,378 |
4,259 |
West Indian |
2,908 |
2,750 |
3,061 |
3,839 |
3,934 |
3,558 |
Taiwanese |
2,850 |
3,044 |
3,174 |
3,126 |
3,378 |
4,118 |
Laotian |
2,787 |
3,191 |
3,143 |
3,124 |
3,577 |
4,092 |
Armenian |
2,749 |
2,571 |
2,483 |
2,285 |
2,294 |
2,807 |
Bulgarian |
2,545 |
2,332 |
2,237 |
2,194 |
1,930 |
2,217 |
Croatian |
2,543 |
2,589 |
2,275 |
2,017 |
1,748 |
1,397 |
Czechoslovakian |
2,330 |
2,114 |
2,274 |
2,097 |
2,076 |
1,825 |
Mongolian |
2,266 |
2,419 |
2,333 |
2,338 |
2,200 |
2,012 |
Finnish |
2,232 |
2,132 |
2,198 |
2,031 |
2,106 |
1,997 |
Uruguayan |
2,141 |
2,214 |
2,278 |
2,326 |
2,148 |
2,072 |
Belgian |
1,859 |
1,803 |
1,839 |
1,685 |
1,986 |
1,622 |
Sri Lankan |
1,837 |
1,618 |
1,695 |
1,564 |
1,485 |
2,009 |
Jordanian |
1,817 |
1,445 |
1,251 |
1,914 |
2,143 |
3,495 |
Albanian |
1,694 |
1,778 |
1,633 |
1,664 |
1,599 |
1,882 |
Indonesian |
1,635 |
1,562 |
1,692 |
1,743 |
1,757 |
1,988 |
Pennsylvania German |
1,605 |
1,726 |
1,795 |
1,690 |
1,829 |
2,016 |
Burmese |
1,595 |
1,557 |
1,611 |
1,857 |
2,231 |
2,058 |
Serbian |
1,577 |
1,423 |
1,422 |
1,606 |
1,474 |
1,270 |
Other Central American |
1,468 |
1,602 |
1,568 |
2,042 |
1,583 |
1,283 |
Slavic |
1,468 |
1,555 |
1,427 |
1,378 |
1,112 |
1,158 |
Kenyan |
1,435 |
1,481 |
1,733 |
2,141 |
2,437 |
1,945 |
Syrian |
1,427 |
1,888 |
1,557 |
1,686 |
1,559 |
1,794 |
Israeli |
1,373 |
1,428 |
1,426 |
1,644 |
1,114 |
1,010 |
Australian |
1,202 |
1,045 |
887 |
695 |
831 |
696 |
Guyanese |
1,145 |
1,303 |
1,244 |
1,393 |
1,268 |
992 |
Paraguayan |
1,029 |
899 |
793 |
890 |
1,217 |
1,636 |
South African |
1,004 |
1,152 |
1,083 |
1,007 |
826 |
838 |
Liberian |
942 |
1,165 |
1,162 |
1,360 |
1,759 |
1,733 |
Slovene |
849 |
785 |
803 |
771 |
701 |
577 |
Other South American |
838 |
604 |
770 |
994 |
1,063 |
1,010 |
Bhutanese |
804 |
939 |
1,619 |
1,732 |
1,185 |
717 |
Latvian |
779 |
793 |
812 |
1,059 |
1,041 |
950 |
British West Indian |
702 |
712 |
801 |
830 |
954 |
982 |
Barbadian |
603 |
726 |
692 |
851 |
940 |
1,013 |
Malaysian |
578 |
815 |
832 |
813 |
895 |
656 |
Icelander |
549 |
482 |
511 |
540 |
453 |
616 |
Zimbabwean |
483 |
335 |
242 |
203 |
282 |
183 |
Senegalese |
482 |
558 |
268 |
167 |
347 |
495 |
Celtic |
465 |
567 |
644 |
560 |
597 |
807 |
Cape Verdean |
431 |
468 |
572 |
546 |
566 |
534 |
German Russian |
419 |
286 |
222 |
195 |
257 |
149 |
Estonian |
418 |
425 |
410 |
315 |
368 |
302 |
Alaska Native tribes |
404 |
472 |
508 |
520 |
363 |
239 |
Cajun |
395 |
400 |
314 |
328 |
353 |
473 |
Belizean |
353 |
442 |
652 |
593 |
569 |
440 |
Hmong |
343 |
387 |
229 |
320 |
311 |
280 |
Bahamian |
331 |
500 |
452 |
475 |
453 |
414 |
United States Virgin Islander |
331 |
363 |
446 |
533 |
722 |
442 |
Spanish American |
291 |
333 |
397 |
521 |
536 |
416 |
Ugandan |
279 |
323 |
391 |
635 |
868 |
777 |
Cypriot |
267 |
242 |
228 |
143 |
190 |
226 |
Basque |
247 |
227 |
321 |
333 |
314 |
259 |
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac |
232 |
218 |
145 |
160 |
87 |
93 |
New Zealander |
221 |
209 |
243 |
219 |
190 |
189 |
Macedonian |
206 |
210 |
171 |
208 |
247 |
411 |
Alsatian |
123 |
139 |
111 |
76 |
109 |
99 |
Carpatho Rusyn |
118 |
128 |
84 |
69 |
74 |
59 |
Maltese |
109 |
120 |
131 |
104 |
110 |
104 |
Other West Indian |
107 |
128 |
152 |
159 |
127 |
71 |
Luxembourger |
85 |
144 |
121 |
144 |
138 |
128 |
Dutch West Indian |
74 |
92 |
63 |
91 |
87 |
104 |
Other Asian, specified |
47 |
82 |
81 |
84 |
123 |
6,204 |
Bermudan |
46 |
44 |
30 |
85 |
127 |
156 |
Soviet Union |
3 |
16 |
19 |
21 |
18 |
17 |
Okinawan |
2 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
10 |
12 |
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