Utah's largest ancestry groups

English is the largest ancestry in Utah, the background of over 1 in 4 residents. Here is a look at the state's 50 largest ancestries in 2010:

Rank	Ancestry	Utah Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	2,776,469	100.0%
1	English	712,373	25.7%
2	German	326,278	11.8%
3	Irish	166,102	6.0%
4	American	155,681	5.6%
5	Danish	154,318	5.6%
6	Scottish	128,678	4.6%
7	European	126,815	4.6%
8	Swedish	108,335	3.9%
9	Italian	74,159	2.7%
10	Dutch	70,028	2.5%
11	Norwegian	67,955	2.4%
12	Welsh	57,205	2.1%
13	French (except Basque)	51,807	1.9%
14	British	34,620	1.2%
15	Scandinavian	34,339	1.2%
16	Swiss	33,422	1.2%
17	Polish	25,146	0.9%
18	Scotch-Irish	17,186	0.6%
19	Greek	12,997	0.5%
20	Canadian	10,978	0.4%
21	Russian	9,472	0.3%
22	Czech	7,557	0.3%
23	Northern European	6,233	0.2%
24	Austrian	5,999	0.2%
25	Yugoslavian	5,745	0.2%
26	French Canadian	5,395	0.2%
27	Brazilian	5,179	0.2%
28	Finnish	5,055	0.2%
29	Icelander	3,784	0.1%
30	Portuguese	3,616	0.1%
31	Somalian	3,584	0.1%
32	Ukrainian	3,551	0.1%
33	Hungarian	3,349	0.1%
34	African	2,964	0.1%
35	Australian	2,828	0.1%
36	Croatian	2,684	0.1%
37	Belgian	2,558	0.1%
38	Romanian	2,388	0.1%
39	Lithuanian	2,108	0.1%
40	Lebanese	1,852	0.1%
41	Serbian	1,764	0.1%
42	Armenian	1,688	0.1%
43	Turkish	1,492	0.1%
44	Basque	1,471	0.1%
45	Czechoslovakian	1,370	0.0%
46	Eastern European	1,174	0.0%
47	Slovak	1,105	0.0%
48	Iranian	1,093	0.0%
49	Arab	993	0.0%
50	Slovene	876	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates