European Americans

European Americans (also referred to as White Americans or Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry. This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in America as well as people who are descended from more recent European arrivals. European Americans are the largest panethnic group (or, variously considered an ethnic group in its own right) seconded historically to the indigenous tribes that were colonized by European Americans in the United States, at present.

European Americans

European ancestry in the US by county (self-reported)
Total population
133 million European-diaspora Americans 41% of total U.S. population (2017) (as opposed to 243,832,540 Americans self-identifying as White or European American 75.5% of the total U.S. population (2018))
Regions with significant populations
Contiguous United States and Alaska smaller populations in Hawaii and the territories
Languages
Predominantly English French • Russian • German • Italian • Spanish • Portuguese • Polish • Romanian • Greek • Serbo-Croatian • others
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (Mainly Protestantism and Roman Catholicism); Minority religions: Judaism, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Non-Hispanic Whites, White Southerners, European diaspora, Europeans, European Canadians, European Australians, European New Zealanders, White South Africans, British (English, Scottish, Welsh, Ulster-Scots), German, Irish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Croatian, Albanian, Bosnian, Romanian Americans, Hungarian Americans, Bulgarian Americans, Dutch Americans, Turkish Americans, Slovak Americans, Portuguese Americans, Spanish Americans

German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French and Scottish are the most common European ancestries in the United States. Eastern European immigrants such as Romanians are more recent.

Many Roma and Jews have arrived to the United States via Europe.

Some European Americans have African and Native American ancestry. 3.5% of European Americans carry African ancestry. In South Carolina and Louisiana, around 12% of European Americans have at least 1% African ancestry.

European Americans Media

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  The map above shows the proportion of Non-Hispanic White alone Americans in each county in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico according to the official results of the 2020 United States Census. The data can be found here.*This file should next be updated when the 2021 Vintage Racial and Ethnic Population Estimates are rel

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  Racial types of European Americans as published in "The American Museum journal" between 1900-1918

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  The New York City Metropolitan Area is home to the largest European population in the United States.

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  American cultural icons, apple pie, baseball, and the American flag. All have European influence primarily from the British.

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  Hamburgers were invented by German immigrants.

Related pages

• American German
• White Americans

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