South Caronlina's largest ancestry groups

American is the biggest ancestry in South Carolina, with over 1 in 8 residents citing it as their ancestral background. Here is a look at the state's 50 largest ancestry groups in 2010:

Rank	Ancestry	South Carolina Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	4,636,312	100.0%
1	American	609,081	13.1%
2	German	470,875	10.2%
3	Irish	449,705	9.7%
4	English	408,649	8.8%
5	Italian	126,427	2.7%
6	Scotch-Irish	113,008	2.4%
7	Scottish	98,837	2.1%
8	French (except Basque)	88,763	1.9%
9	Polish	62,440	1.3%
10	Dutch	44,790	1.0%
11	European	38,441	0.8%
12	African	22,184	0.5%
13	Swedish	21,607	0.5%
14	Welsh	21,584	0.5%
15	British	18,468	0.4%
16	Norwegian	17,813	0.4%
17	Greek	15,916	0.3%
18	Russian	14,227	0.3%
19	French Canadian	13,537	0.3%
20	Hungarian	10,995	0.2%
21	Czech	8,388	0.2%
22	Swiss	8,071	0.2%
23	Canadian	8,052	0.2%
24	Ukrainian	6,725	0.1%
25	Danish	6,652	0.1%
26	Portuguese	5,789	0.1%
27	Austrian	5,102	0.1%
28	Romanian	4,653	0.1%
29	Slovak	4,612	0.1%
30	Finnish	3,931	0.1%
31	Jamaican	3,901	0.1%
32	Lebanese	3,615	0.1%
33	Scandinavian	3,507	0.1%
34	Lithuanian	3,351	0.1%
35	Czechoslovakian	2,859	0.1%
36	Northern European	2,605	0.1%
37	Belgian	2,426	0.1%
38	Croatian	2,305	0.0%
39	Serbian	2,208	0.0%
40	Brazilian	2,179	0.0%
41	Iranian	2,112	0.0%
42	Eastern European	2,087	0.0%
43	West Indian	2,054	0.0%
44	Egyptian	2,044	0.0%
45	Turkish	1,804	0.0%
46	Other Arab	1,599	0.0%
47	Haitian	1,591	0.0%
48	Bahamian	1,382	0.0%
49	Slovene	1,286	0.0%
50	Yugoslavian	1,164	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates