Kentucky's largest ancestry groups

More Kentucky residents claimed American heritage than any other ancestry in 2010. Here is a look at the 50 largest ancestry groups in the state:

Rank	Ancestry	Kentucky Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	4,346,266	100.0%
1	American	924,814	21.3%
2	German	647,990	14.9%
3	Irish	556,305	12.8%
4	English	467,311	10.8%
5	Italian	82,483	1.9%
6	Scottish	76,018	1.7%
7	French (except Basque)	72,956	1.7%
8	Scotch-Irish	63,142	1.5%
9	Dutch	53,773	1.2%
10	European	38,586	0.9%
11	Polish	31,671	0.7%
12	African	21,759	0.5%
13	Welsh	21,240	0.5%
14	British	16,418	0.4%
15	Norwegian	14,775	0.3%
16	Swedish	12,797	0.3%
17	Swiss	9,692	0.2%
18	Russian	8,508	0.2%
19	Yugoslavian	7,857	0.2%
20	French Canadian	7,405	0.2%
21	Greek	5,499	0.1%
22	Hungarian	5,271	0.1%
23	Czech	4,546	0.1%
24	Lebanese	4,360	0.1%
25	Portuguese	4,099	0.1%
26	Ukrainian	4,064	0.1%
27	Danish	3,821	0.1%
28	Scandinavian	3,639	0.1%
29	Canadian	3,208	0.1%
30	Austrian	3,066	0.1%
31	Finnish	2,567	0.1%
32	Eastern European	2,498	0.1%
33	Slovak	2,147	0.0%
34	Belgian	1,973	0.0%
35	Pennsylvania German	1,784	0.0%
36	Arab	1,773	0.0%
37	Haitian	1,762	0.0%
38	Iranian	1,452	0.0%
39	Jamaican	1,406	0.0%
40	Lithuanian	1,397	0.0%
41	Romanian	1,325	0.0%
42	Brazilian	1,274	0.0%
43	Somalian	1,268	0.0%
44	Croatian	1,108	0.0%
45	Slovene	1,094	0.0%
46	Syrian	1,087	0.0%
47	Ethiopian	1,077	0.0%
48	Northern European	1,059	0.0%
49	Other Arab	1,014	0.0%
50	Czechoslovakian	999	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates