English Americans

English Americans
Total population
Alone (one ancestry)
25,536,410 (2020 census)[1]
7.70% of the total US population

Alone or in combination
46,550,968 (2020 census)[1]
14.04% of the total US population
Regions with significant populations
Found Nationwide with significant populations in the South and New England
California3,754,933[1]
Texas3,520,547[1]
Florida2,540,795[1]
Ohio2,037,771[1]
North Carolina1,869,609[1]
New York1,641,789[1]
Pennsylvania1,641,137[1]
Michigan1,637,351[1]
Georgia1,594,956[1]
Tennessee1,430,466[1]
Languages
English
Religion
Traditionally Christianity[2]
Related ethnic groups
Other English diaspora, American ancestry, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, Old Stock Americans, other British Americans, White Americans, European Americans, Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, Cornish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Dutch Americans, German Americans, French Americans, Scandinavian Americans[3]

English Americans (also known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. According to the 2020 United States census, English Americans are the largest group in the United States with 46.6 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population. This includes 25,536,410 (12.5% of whites) identified as predominantly or "English alone".[4]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Races and Ethnicities USA 2020". United States census. September 21, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  2. ^ Cortés, Carlos E. (August 15, 2013). Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. p. 780. ISBN 978-1-4522-7626-7.
  3. ^ "Over Half of White Population Reported Being English, German or Irish".
  4. ^ "Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census". United States census. September 21, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.