Georgia's largest ancestries

More Georgia residents selected American as their ancestry than any other group in 2010. Here is a look at the top 50 ancestries in the state:

Rank	Ancestry	Georgia Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	9,712,587	100.0%
1	American	1,042,505	10.7%
2	English	821,124	8.5%
3	Irish	803,004	8.3%
4	German	714,369	7.4%
5	Italian	213,953	2.2%
6	Scottish	177,199	1.8%
7	French (except Basque)	141,435	1.5%
8	Scotch-Irish	124,186	1.3%
9	African	118,781	1.2%
10	Polish	100,954	1.0%
11	European	100,670	1.0%
12	Dutch	83,082	0.9%
13	Jamaican	53,603	0.6%
14	Russian	41,733	0.4%
15	Swedish	40,814	0.4%
16	British	40,350	0.4%
17	Welsh	38,145	0.4%
18	Norwegian	35,817	0.4%
19	Nigerian	28,763	0.3%
20	French Canadian	24,392	0.3%
21	Greek	22,068	0.2%
22	Haitian	20,782	0.2%
23	Hungarian	17,403	0.2%
24	Czech	14,836	0.2%
25	Ukrainian	14,310	0.1%
26	West Indian	13,765	0.1%
27	Danish	13,407	0.1%
28	Canadian	12,481	0.1%
29	Ethiopian	11,739	0.1%
30	Austrian	11,563	0.1%
31	Portuguese	11,108	0.1%
32	Swiss	10,833	0.1%
33	Trinidadian and Tobagonian	10,759	0.1%
34	Lebanese	10,754	0.1%
35	Yugoslavian	10,339	0.1%
36	Romanian	10,066	0.1%
37	Brazilian	9,912	0.1%
38	Iranian	9,723	0.1%
39	Eastern European	8,220	0.1%
40	Slovak	7,452	0.1%
41	Guyanese	7,415	0.1%
42	Scandinavian	7,379	0.1%
43	Lithuanian	6,350	0.1%
44	Finnish	5,919	0.1%
45	Turkish	5,080	0.1%
46	Other Arab	5,028	0.1%
47	Other Subsaharan African	5,025	0.1%
48	Belgian	5,019	0.1%
49	Croatian	4,724	0.0%
50	Bahamian	4,506	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates