Wisconsin Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Wisconsin Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 4,967,124 4,961,193 4,950,577 4,945,966 4,946,961 4,895,065
German 990,513 955,278 922,018 889,413 848,962 831,881
Hispanic or Latino 364,558 371,205 380,590 385,779 394,392 408,267
African American 360,792 361,730 365,884 368,744 371,200 367,889
Mexican 266,834 269,628 276,508 278,789 283,726 289,231
American 188,959 179,320 166,731 161,744 157,485 154,481
Polish 151,127 146,166 141,078 136,116 133,170 129,347
Asian 143,732 148,077 152,325 159,356 161,841 163,396
Norwegian 139,097 136,001 131,006 126,116 121,438 116,049
Irish 117,100 113,587 109,176 108,600 104,974 105,602
Some Other Race 96,057 105,038 111,435 115,941 118,350 134,715
English 70,058 66,713 63,020 60,357 58,150 62,593
Italian 54,943 53,116 51,438 51,152 49,937 47,048
Puerto Rican 52,658 54,613 56,344 57,475 58,692 61,167
Hmong 52,233 54,655 55,792 56,503 55,273 54,019
American Indian 43,565 44,419 43,415 43,839 45,270 42,850
European 42,341 44,245 46,583 52,730 59,825 62,825
Dutch 39,313 38,031 35,225 34,220 33,304 31,530
Swedish 29,705 28,167 26,978 25,842 24,451 23,107
Asian Indian 27,658 27,326 30,062 30,860 32,488 32,229
Subsaharan African 24,736 24,896 23,817 23,548 23,866 20,552
French 22,090 21,118 19,706 18,799 18,151 18,035
Czech 21,539 21,162 20,134 19,740 18,458 18,093
Chinese 20,426 21,492 22,744 24,121 23,439 23,804
African 19,036 18,679 16,878 15,722 15,518 11,865
French Canadian 15,723 15,265 15,252 14,510 13,403 13,109
Belgian 14,046 13,915 13,566 13,013 12,332 11,927
Scottish 13,043 12,653 12,708 12,992 12,748 12,884
Swiss 12,599 12,492 12,104 11,518 10,886 10,210
Danish 12,493 12,004 12,048 11,632 11,326 10,982
Finnish 10,989 10,390 10,532 9,953 9,985 10,835
Russian 9,531 9,323 9,742 9,740 9,419 9,023
Scandinavian 9,230 9,757 9,594 10,317 10,952 11,938
Filipino 8,723 8,825 8,770 9,255 9,572 9,997
Total Arab 8,502 9,293 9,391 9,961 10,485 10,821
Korean 8,272 8,821 8,439 8,644 8,802 8,964
All other Hispanic or Latino 6,871 7,337 7,375 7,879 8,814 9,567
Pennsylvania German 6,701 6,509 7,058 7,279 7,076 6,893
Scotch-Irish 6,277 6,232 6,182 6,196 5,988 6,167
Greek 5,962 5,427 5,354 5,633 5,697 5,369
Hungarian 5,653 5,536 5,181 5,330 4,767 4,841
Austrian 5,287 4,997 4,726 4,506 4,504 4,612
British 4,901 4,951 5,245 5,413 6,323 6,580
Croatian 4,778 4,580 4,448 4,564 4,496 4,130
Ukrainian 4,349 4,080 4,196 3,853 3,755 3,386
Spaniard 4,229 3,926 4,502 4,663 4,438 4,996
Serbian 4,203 4,223 4,023 4,174 3,910 4,084
Welsh 4,154 4,259 4,162 4,068 3,893 3,474
Northern European 4,106 4,608 4,767 5,569 6,034 7,393
Guatemalan 4,050 3,886 3,961 3,751 3,736 3,835
Laotian 3,943 3,844 3,577 3,494 3,461 3,767
Cuban 3,927 4,557 4,345 4,967 5,251 6,167
Slovak 3,821 3,542 3,291 3,249 3,242 3,170
Lithuanian 3,727 3,546 3,476 3,402 3,540 3,076
Honduran 3,340 3,902 3,705 3,550 3,886 3,689
Albanian 3,268 3,129 2,756 3,235 3,063 3,448
Colombian 3,231 3,333 3,858 4,249 4,397 5,178
Czechoslovakian 3,230 2,846 2,759 2,750 3,040 2,895
Pakistani 3,204 2,888 2,803 3,134 3,512 3,559
Spanish 3,061 2,621 2,571 2,387 2,244 2,487
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 2,798 2,959 3,038 3,079 3,394 2,855
Japanese 2,769 2,892 2,685 3,010 2,989 2,921
Slovene 2,571 2,460 2,577 2,583 2,559 2,615
Canadian 2,426 2,352 2,309 2,258 2,344 2,403
Other Asian, not specified 2,387 2,349 1,987 1,955 2,529 2,515
Eastern European 2,309 2,797 3,588 4,875 6,399 7,113
Dominican 2,163 2,278 2,090 2,421 2,969 3,424
Yugoslavian 2,158 2,218 1,936 1,567 1,342 1,431
Luxembourger 2,031 1,810 1,813 1,762 1,634 1,620
Salvadoran 1,993 2,326 2,351 2,458 2,422 2,769
Two or more Asian 1,992 2,151 1,750 2,187 2,513 2,952
Nicaraguan 1,912 1,982 2,103 2,035 2,441 2,399
Arab 1,875 2,072 2,030 2,581 2,418 2,193
Burmese 1,815 2,277 2,746 4,376 4,821 4,948
Peruvian 1,784 1,867 1,949 2,099 2,148 2,195
Romanian 1,747 1,819 1,946 1,792 1,757 1,992
Armenian 1,654 1,825 1,753 1,648 1,419 1,493
Somali 1,551 1,367 1,065 1,385 1,516 1,515
Jamaican 1,496 1,601 1,583 1,748 2,158 1,671
Nigerian 1,385 1,280 1,477 1,575 1,938 2,582
Thai 1,380 1,277 1,383 1,793 1,782 1,692
Latvian 1,362 1,264 1,325 1,330 1,173 909
Venezuelan 1,324 1,276 1,125 1,274 1,405 2,008
Palestinian 1,298 1,595 1,441 1,122 1,105 1,771
Other Arab 1,295 1,391 1,319 1,970 2,470 2,225
Chilean 1,240 1,349 1,500 1,313 1,185 931
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 1,233 1,378 1,811 1,975 2,400 2,672
Ecuadorian 1,224 1,484 1,853 1,791 1,789 1,959
Panamanian 1,209 982 754 869 783 1,090
Argentinean 1,138 1,507 1,345 1,454 1,635 2,050
Lebanese 1,116 940 1,063 1,031 882 910
Costa Rican 1,062 984 1,167 1,088 938 1,185
Cambodian 1,055 954 939 832 1,369 1,068
Iranian 1,037 961 1,184 1,202 1,393 1,186
Nepalese 1,010 884 1,033 1,334 1,128 1,080
Slavic 995 975 954 963 1,029 953
Egyptian 933 908 836 693 770 959
Iraqi 840 988 1,030 641 1,040 723
Brazilian 797 861 866 1,068 927 973
Turkish 737 705 983 848 913 958
Ethiopian 718 788 984 1,055 1,216 1,037
Bulgarian 676 621 682 598 739 729
Portuguese 654 737 741 952 818 1,052
Taiwanese 547 590 627 785 744 979
German Russian 516 551 513 689 899 860
Other Subsaharan African 492 1,009 1,494 1,391 1,441 1,475
Jordanian 488 552 686 807 827 912
Icelander 441 438 432 314 311 294
Macedonian 437 341 457 434 385 157
Bolivian 414 498 522 547 647 627
Australian 414 350 373 388 353 377
Paraguayan 402 408 222 187 130 495
West Indian 370 402 456 285 313 279
Uruguayan 355 297 281 353 520 659
Ghanaian 354 265 376 463 509 399
Syrian 348 288 248 364 368 310
Haitian 344 349 501 580 560 631
Sri Lankan 342 347 315 262 192 208
Senegalese 328 353 301 267 271 99
Moroccan 309 559 738 752 605 818
Alaska Native tribes 290 348 360 378 401 350
Israeli 279 280 284 234 218 190
Malaysian 265 279 360 289 286 560
Liberian 227 355 357 529 474 377
Kenyan 223 297 409 632 499 672
Afghan 220 337 328 406 338 191
Mongolian 204 185 194 267 348 257
South African 200 219 184 250 205 208
Celtic 180 160 124 123 136 116
Indonesian 172 331 314 338 451 507
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 169 91 82 116 135 137
Basque 152 143 161 117 67 77
Sudanese 147 124 123 148 144 186
Cajun 141 163 169 150 205 173
United States Virgin Islander 135 131 95 77 27 2
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 127 164 105 96 98 78
Bangladeshi 122 270 362 395 600 629
Estonian 120 160 175 164 128 97
Belizean 92 84 87 96 77 81
British West Indian 81 79 104 108 76 25
New Zealander 72 87 74 63 51 25
Bahamian 66 72 55 50 43 36
Bhutanese 64 73 63 26 0 0
Spanish American 64 44 23 59 60 32
Other South American 63 113 136 106 107 101
Guyanese 56 16 41 72 85 69
Carpatho Rusyn 49 50 35 26 72 66
Barbadian 47 40 26 17 23 30
Other Asian, specified 41 43 44 60 4 121
Sierra Leonean 40 87 87 77 59 62
Cypriot 38 40 55 83 80 26
Dutch West Indian 30 37 26 22 12 12
Alsatian 27 34 41 56 60 67
Ugandan 22 67 74 45 48 58
Soviet Union 16 21 29 27 17 12
Zimbabwean 13 6 5 5 17 7
Other Central American 10 7 0 15 29 26
Bermudan 10 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 9 18 17 26 37 29
Okinawan 6 1 2 2 0 3

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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