Texas' largest ancestry groups

German is the largest ancestry in Texas, the background of over 10% of residents. Here is a look at the state's 50 largest ancestries in 2010:

Rank	Ancestry	Texas Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	25,257,114	100.0%
1	German	2,629,301	10.4%
2	Irish	1,886,844	7.5%
3	English	1,686,422	6.7%
4	American	1,329,129	5.3%
5	French (except Basque)	544,476	2.2%
6	Italian	468,757	1.9%
7	Scottish	369,161	1.5%
8	Scotch-Irish	287,393	1.1%
9	Polish	271,559	1.1%
10	Dutch	224,491	0.9%
11	European	214,441	0.8%
12	Czech	202,673	0.8%
13	Swedish	151,418	0.6%
14	African	127,222	0.5%
15	Norwegian	126,355	0.5%
16	Welsh	96,675	0.4%
17	British	86,053	0.3%
18	Russian	80,082	0.3%
19	French Canadian	73,483	0.3%
20	Danish	48,220	0.2%
21	Nigerian	43,458	0.2%
22	Greek	42,756	0.2%
23	Hungarian	39,708	0.2%
24	Iranian	35,887	0.1%
25	Lebanese	32,277	0.1%
26	Canadian	32,042	0.1%
27	Swiss	30,723	0.1%
28	Portuguese	28,788	0.1%
29	Scandinavian	26,382	0.1%
30	Austrian	23,989	0.1%
31	Jamaican	23,284	0.1%
32	Czechoslovakian	20,467	0.1%
33	Arab	19,680	0.1%
34	Cajun	19,582	0.1%
35	Ukrainian	18,250	0.1%
36	Brazilian	15,090	0.1%
37	Romanian	14,733	0.1%
38	Finnish	14,652	0.1%
39	Ethiopian	14,513	0.1%
40	Other Arab	14,235	0.1%
41	Lithuanian	13,548	0.1%
42	Dutch West Indian	13,084	0.1%
43	Northern European	12,293	0.0%
44	Turkish	11,970	0.0%
45	Yugoslavian	11,735	0.0%
46	Belgian	11,006	0.0%
47	Eastern European	10,869	0.0%
48	Croatian	9,716	0.0%
49	Other Subsaharan African	9,275	0.0%
50	Slovak	8,927	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates