Top Ancestry Groups in Alabama

More Alabama residents claim American as their ancestry than any other background. Here are the top 50 largest ancestry groups living in the state of Alabama in 2010.

Rank	Ancestry	Alabama Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	4,785,298	100.0%
1	American	660,698	13.8%
2	Irish	467,002	9.8%
3	English	418,961	8.8%
4	German	338,979	7.1%
5	Scottish	97,784	2.0%
6	French (except Basque)	91,804	1.9%
7	Italian	81,993	1.7%
8	Scotch-Irish	75,353	1.6%
9	Dutch	49,685	1.0%
10	European	39,744	0.8%
11	Polish	32,003	0.7%
12	African	30,336	0.6%
13	Welsh	17,082	0.4%
14	Swedish	16,228	0.3%
15	British	14,951	0.3%
16	Norwegian	14,013	0.3%
17	Greek	9,601	0.2%
18	Russian	8,843	0.2%
19	French Canadian	8,038	0.2%
20	Lebanese	5,206	0.1%
21	Hungarian	4,936	0.1%
22	Swiss	4,910	0.1%
23	Jamaican	4,457	0.1%
24	Austrian	4,130	0.1%
25	Portuguese	3,913	0.1%
26	Czech	3,720	0.1%
27	Scandinavian	3,704	0.1%
28	Canadian	3,551	0.1%
29	Danish	3,377	0.1%
30	Ukrainian	2,723	0.1%
31	Turkish	2,424	0.1%
32	Czechoslovakian	2,078	0.0%
33	Nigerian	1,801	0.0%
34	Lithuanian	1,788	0.0%
35	Romanian	1,740	0.0%
36	Slovak	1,713	0.0%
37	Cajun	1,633	0.0%
38	Iranian	1,551	0.0%
39	Northern European	1,405	0.0%
40	West Indian	1,393	0.0%
41	Croatian	1,377	0.0%
42	Finnish	1,208	0.0%
43	Slavic	1,206	0.0%
44	Arab	1,165	0.0%
45	Sudanese	1,072	0.0%
46	Brazilian	951	0.0%
47	Palestinian	943	0.0%
48	Eastern European	932	0.0%
49	Belgian	924	0.0%
50	Kenyan	800	0.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates