Ethnicity or an ethnic group denotes a group of individuals that share common characteristics, such as ancestry, country of origin, language, religion, culture and physical appearance. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on ethnicity.
Share This
table started by
narphorium for the narphorium's Base
There is no user-contributed description yet.
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 6,000 Ethnicity topics matching:
Filter this Collection
+
| x name | x image | x Included in group(s) | x Includes group(s) | x Geographic distribution | x article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x African American |
|
African diaspora | Foreign-born Afro Americans | United States of America |
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa....
|
| Afro Americans in the Americas | |||||
| x English American |
|
European American |
English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo-Americans, although this may have a wider linguistic meaning) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
According to American Community Survey in 2010 data...
|
||
| Anglo Americans | |||||
| x Korean American |
|
Asian American | United States of America |
Korean Americans (Korean: 한국계 미국인, Hanja: 韓國系美國人, Hangukgye Migukin) are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea. The Korean American community comprises about 0.6% of the United States population...
|
|
| Asian | |||||
| x Irish American |
|
European American | United States of America |
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S....
|
|
| Europeans | |||||
| x Japanese American |
|
Asian American | United States of America |
Japanese Americans (日系米国人, Nikkei Beikokujin) are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades, it have become the sixth largest group at...
|
|
| Asian | |||||
| x Italian American |
|
European American | United States of America |
An Italian American (Italian: Italoamericano singular, Italian: Italoamericani plural), is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth...
|
|
| x Asian American |
|
Asian | Japanese American | United States of America |
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes people who...
|
| Chinese American | |||||
| Vietnamese American | |||||
| Filipino American | |||||
| Indian American | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Chinese American |
|
Asian American | Hawaii |
Chinese Americans (Chinese: trad. 華裔美國人, simp. 华裔美国人, pin. Huáyì Měiguórén; t 美籍華人, s 美籍华人, p Měijí Huárén) are Americans of Chinese – particularly Han Chinese – descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup...
|
|
| Overseas Chinese | Texas | ||||
| Northeastern United States | |||||
| West Coast of the United States | |||||
| Upper Midwest | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Vietnamese American |
|
Asian American | United States of America |
A Vietnamese American (Vietnamese: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (Người Việt Hải Ngoại) and are the fourth-largest Asian American group.
Mass Vietnamese immigration to the...
|
|
| Asian | |||||
| x Filipino American |
|
Asian American | United States of America |
Filipino Americans are American citizens of Filipino ancestry, including those who migrated from the Philippines. There are over 3.4 million people of Filipino descent residing in the United States, according to the 2010 United States Census....
|
|
| Asian | |||||
| x Indian American |
|
Asian American | United States of America |
Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with the indigenous peoples of the Americas commonly referred to as American Indians.
In North America, the term...
|
|
| Asian | |||||
| x German American |
|
European American | United States of America |
German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and comprise about 50 million people, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group. California, Texas and Pennsylvania have the largest...
|
|
| x Canadian-American | United States of America |
A Canadian American is someone who was born or someone who grew up in Canada then moved to the United States. The term is particularly apt when applied or self-applied to people with strong ties to Canada, such as those who have lived a significant...
|
|||
| x Lebanese American |
|
Arab American | California |
'Lebanese Americans (Arabic: اللبنانية الأميركية) are American citizens of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States as well as Lebanese immigrants to America. The vast majority of them are Christians, in...
|
|
| Asian American | Florida | ||||
| Pennsylvania | |||||
| New York | |||||
| New Jersey | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Arab American |
|
Asian American | Lebanese American |
An Arab American (Arabic: عرب أمريكا) is a United States citizen or resident of Arab ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage or identity, who identifies themselves as Arab. Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants of...
|
|
| Syrian American | |||||
| x Mexican American |
|
Hispanic |
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10.3% of the United States' population with over 31,689,000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Americans comprise 66% of all Hispanics and...
|
||
| Hispanic and Latino Americans | |||||
| x Scottish American |
|
Scottish people | United States of America |
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scots-Irish Americans, descendants...
|
|
| European American | |||||
| x Dutch-American |
|
European American |
A Dutch American is an American of Dutch descent.
Following the exploration of the American East Coast by Henry Hudson on behalf of the Dutch East India Company in 1609, Dutch settlement in the Americas started in 1613. From then on a number of...
|
||
| x Scotch-Irish American |
|
European American |
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are the descendants of Presbyterian and other Protestant dissenters from the Irish province of Ulster who immigrated to North America. Most of the Scotch-Irish were descended from Scottish and English families...
|
||
| x British American |
|
European American | Cornish American |
British Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). The term is seldom used by people to refer to themselves (1,172,050 chose it in the...
|
|
| Briton | |||||
| x Native Americans in the United States |
|
Osage Nation | United States of America |
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct Native...
|
|
| Hopi | |||||
| Onondaga | |||||
| Cherokee | |||||
| Pequot | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Cuban American |
|
Hispanic |
A Cuban American (Spanish: Cubano estadounidense) is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban ancestry or Cuban-born persons who were raised and...
|
||
| Hispanic and Latino Americans | |||||
| x American | Californian | United States of America |
Someone who lives in the United States.
|
||
| Texan | |||||
| Southerner | |||||
| White Anglo-Saxon Protestant | |||||
| x Yemeni Americans | United States of America |
Yemeni Americans are citizens of the United States of Yemeni ancestry or a Yemeni who has U.S. citizenship. According to an estimate of 2010, more than 20,000 Yemenis live in the United States.
Although it is unknown when Yemenis first arrived, it...
|
|||
| x Colombian American |
|
Hispanic and Latino Americans | United States of America |
Colombian Americans are citizens of the United States who trace their nationality or heritage from the South American nation of Colombia. They are the largest South American ethnic group in the United States.
The first Colombians inmigrants that...
|
|
| x Croatian American |
|
Slavic Americans | United States of America |
Croatian Americans (Croatian: Hrvatski Amerikanci) are citizens of the United States of Croatian descent.
According to the 2007 US Community Survey, there are 420,763 Americans of full or partial Croatian descent.
According to the United States...
|
|
| x European American |
|
White American | Welsh American |
A European American (also known as a Euro-American) is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the original peoples of Europe. This includes people via African, North American, Caribbean, Central American or South...
|
|
| Albanian-American | |||||
| Austrian-American | |||||
| Basque-American | |||||
| Belgian-American | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Welsh American |
|
European American | United States of America |
Welsh Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales. In the 2008 U.S. Census community survey, an estimated 1.98 million Americans had Welsh ancestry, 0.6% of the total U.S. population. This compares...
|
|
| x Albanian-American |
|
European American | United States of America |
Albanian-Americans are United States citizens of full or partial Albanian ancestry. According to data from a 2008 Survey of the United States Government, there are 201,118 Americans of full or partial Albanian descent.
The first documented Albanian...
|
|
| x Austrian-American |
|
European American |
Austrian Americans are Americans of Austrian descent. According to the 2000 US census, there are 735,128, or 0.3% Americans of full or partial Austrian descent. The states with the largest Austrian American populations are New York (93,083),...
|
||
| x Basque-American |
|
European American |
Basque Americans (Basque: Amerikanuak) are citizens of the United States who are of Basque ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 57,793 Americans of full or partial Basque descent. Of them, 41,811 people claimed be, simply Basque...
|
||
| x Belgian-American | European American |
Belgian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Belgian ancestry, although "Belgian" is not considered an ethnic term (Flemings and Walloons are the two largest ethnic groups in Belgium). There were no Belgians anywhere in the world...
|
|||
| x Bulgarian Americans |
|
Bulgarian Americans are citizens of the United States with Bulgarian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry. Those can include...
|
|||
| x Cypriot American | European American |
A Cypriot American is a citizen of the United States of America of Cypriot heritage or descent. The majority of Cypriot Americans, alongside English, speak either Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish, Cypriot Arabic, or Armenian. In general, Greek-Cypriot...
|
|||
| Asian American | |||||
| x Czech American |
|
Europeans |
Czech Americans (Czech: Čechoameričané) are citizens of the United States who were born in, or who descended from, the territory of the historic Czech lands, (consisting of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia), or succession states, now known as the Czech...
|
||
| Slavic Americans | |||||
| x Danish Americans |
|
Scandinavian American |
Danish Americans (Danish: Dansk-amerikanere) are Americans of Danish descent. There are approximately 1,500,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent. Most Danish-Americans live in the Western United States or the Midwestern United States.
The first...
|
||
| x Estonian-American |
|
European American |
The Estonian Americans (Estonian: Ameerika eestlased) are citizens or residents of the United States who are of Estonian ancestry, mainly descendants of people who left Estonia before and especially during World War II. According to the 2000 US...
|
||
| x Faroese American | Scandinavian American |
Faroese Americans are Americans of Faroese descent. Most Faroese emigrated to countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom. However, Faroese Americans are most commonly found in Wisconsin, Minnesota,...
|
|||
| x Finnish American |
|
Scandinavian American |
Finnish Americans are Americans of Finnish descent, who currently number about 700,000.
Some Finns, like the ancestors of John Morton, came to the Swedish colony of New Sweden, that existed in mid-17th century.
Finns first started coming to the...
|
||
| x French American |
|
European American |
French Americans or Franco-Americans are Americans of French or French Canadian descent. About 11.8 million U.S. residents are of this descent, and about 2.0 million speak French and French Creole at home. While Americans of French descent make up a...
|
||
| x Greek American |
|
European American |
Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikani) are Americans of Greek descent also described as Hellenic descent. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States,...
|
||
| x Hungarian American |
|
European American |
Hungarian Americans (Hungarian: amerikai magyarok) are American citizens of Hungarian descent. The constant influx of Hungarian immigrants was marked by several waves of sharp increase.
Europeans have long settled in the New World, with Hungarian...
|
||
| x Icelandic Americans |
|
Scandinavian American |
Icelandic Americans are Americans of Icelandic descent. Icelandic immigrants came to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and after World War II. There are more than 40,000 Icelandic Americans according to the 2000 U.S....
|
||
| x Latvian-American | European American |
Latvian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Latvian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 87,564 Americans of full or partial Latvian descent. The states with the largest Latvian-American populations are:
The first...
|
|||
| x Lithuanian-American |
|
European American |
Lithuanian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Lithuanian ancestry. According to the United States Census, there are 712,165 Americans of full or partial Lithuanian descent. New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest...
|
||
| x Luxembourg American | European American |
Luxembourgian Americans, also known as Luxembourg Americans (sometimes hyphenated in either spelling), are citizens of the United States of Luxembourgian ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 Census, there are 45,139 Americans of full or...
|
|||
| x Macedonian American |
|
Slavic Americans | Michigan |
Macedonian Americans (Macedonian: Македонски Американци, Makedonski Amerikanci) are Americans of ethnic Macedonian descent.
The first Macedonian American immigrants came from the border regions in the north of what is today Greek Macedonia,...
|
|
| x Montenegrin American | Slavic Americans |
Montenegrin Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Montenegrin ancestry. Also, the term "Yugoslavian American" may be preferred by people who identify with the former nation of Yugoslavia before its breakup during the early 1990s,...
|
|||
| x Norwegian American |
|
Scandinavian American | Midwestern United States |
Norwegian Americans (Norwegian: norskamerikanere) are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4...
|
|
| x Polish American |
|
Europeans |
A Polish American (Polish: Amerykanin polskiego pochodzenia), is a citizen of the United States of Polish descent. There are an estimated 10 million Polish Americans, representing about 3.2% of the population of the United States. No distinction is...
|
||
| Slavic Americans | |||||
| x Portuguese American |
|
European American |
Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira.
Colloquially, the term is also incorrectly applied to...
|
||
| x Romanian-American |
|
European American |
A Romanian American (Romanian: Român American) is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 518,653 persons declared to have...
|
||
| x Russian American |
|
Asian American |
Russian Americans are primarily Americans who trace their ancestry to Russia. The definition can be applied to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to settlers of 19th century Russian settlements in northwestern America which...
|
||
| Slavic Americans | |||||
| x Serbian American |
|
Slavic Americans | Pennsylvania |
Serbian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Serbian ancestry. For the 2000 US Census, 1.023.993 Americans indicated Serbian as their first ancestry, while 900.800 persons declared to have Serbian ancestry. Those can include...
|
|
| Indiana | |||||
| Ohio | |||||
| Illinois | |||||
| California | |||||
| x Slovak American |
|
Slavic Americans |
Slovak Americans are Americans of Slovak descent. In the 1990 Census Slovak Americans made up the second-largest portion of Slavic ethnic groups. There are currently about 790,000 people of Slovak descent living in the United States.
Isaac...
|
||
| x Slovene Americans | Slavic Americans |
Slovene Americans or Slovenian Americans (Slovene: ameriški Slovenci, literally "American Slovenes") are citizens of the United States of Slovene descent.
The first Slovenes in the United States were missionary priests. Two of the earliest such...
|
|||
| x Spanish American |
|
European American |
A Spanish American is a citizen or resident of the United States whose ancestors originate from the southwestern European nation of Spain. Spanish Americans are the earliest European American group, with a continuous presence since 1565.
In colonial...
|
||
| Hispanic | |||||
| Hispanic and Latino Americans | |||||
| x Swedish American |
|
Scandinavian American |
Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent, especially the descendants of about 1.2 million immigrants from Sweden during 1885–1915. Most were Lutherans who were affiliated with predecessor bodies of what are now the Evangelical Lutheran...
|
||
| x Swiss American |
|
European American |
Swiss Americans are Americans of Swiss descent.
There are several ethno-linguistic subgroups among Swiss Americans, including Swiss German-speaking, Swiss French-speaking, and Swiss Italian-speaking. Reportedly, these people are sometimes mistaken...
|
||
| x Ukrainian American |
|
Slavic Americans |
Ukrainian Americans (Ukrainian: Українці Америки, Українці у США; translit. Ukrayintsiy Ameriki, Ukrayintsiy u SShA) are citizens and permanent residents of the United States who have emigrated to the United States and are of Ukrainian ancestry....
|
||
