Virginia's largest ancestries

German is the largest ancestral background of Virginia residents. Here is a look at Virginia's 50 largest ancestries in 2010:

Rank	Ancestry	Virginia Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	8,024,617	100.0%
1	German	980,727	12.2%
2	English	897,871	11.2%
3	American	884,916	11.0%
4	Irish	804,331	10.0%
5	Italian	307,135	3.8%
6	Scottish	170,360	2.1%
7	French (except Basque)	153,907	1.9%
8	Polish	151,136	1.9%
9	Scotch-Irish	140,769	1.8%
10	European	122,327	1.5%
11	African	111,663	1.4%
12	Dutch	84,465	1.1%
13	Swedish	62,330	0.8%
14	Welsh	57,312	0.7%
15	Russian	53,624	0.7%
16	British	53,465	0.7%
17	Norwegian	50,128	0.6%
18	Greek	34,097	0.4%
19	French Canadian	33,553	0.4%
20	Hungarian	29,621	0.4%
21	Czech	27,311	0.3%
22	Swiss	21,297	0.3%
23	Ethiopian	20,174	0.3%
24	Iranian	19,886	0.2%
25	Austrian	16,914	0.2%
26	Ukrainian	16,895	0.2%
27	Jamaican	16,352	0.2%
28	Lebanese	16,194	0.2%
29	Danish	15,471	0.2%
30	Slovak	14,237	0.2%
31	Portuguese	14,067	0.2%
32	Canadian	13,606	0.2%
33	Eastern European	12,074	0.2%
34	Lithuanian	11,311	0.1%
35	Scandinavian	10,947	0.1%
36	Ghanaian	10,742	0.1%
37	Other Arab	10,697	0.1%
38	Turkish	10,654	0.1%
39	Arab	10,641	0.1%
40	Afghan	10,191	0.1%
41	Egyptian	8,827	0.1%
42	Romanian	8,547	0.1%
43	Northern European	7,373	0.1%
44	Moroccan	7,280	0.1%
45	Yugoslavian	6,927	0.1%
46	Somalian	6,925	0.1%
47	Haitian	6,780	0.1%
48	Finnish	6,723	0.1%
49	Nigerian	6,124	0.1%
50	West Indian	5,830	0.1%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates