European Americans: Americans of European descent

This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in America as well as people who are descended from more recent European arrivals. European Americans are the largest panethnic group (or, variously considered an ethnic group in its own right) seconded historically to the indigenous tribes that were colonized by European Americans in the United States, at present.

European Americans

Total population
133 million European-diaspora Americans 41% of total U.S. population (2017) (as opposed to 243,832,540 Americans self-identifying as White or Caucasian 75.5% of the total U.S. population (2018))
Regions with significant populations
Contiguous United States and Alaska smaller populations in Hawaii and the territories
Languages
Predominantly English French • Russian • German • Italian • Spanish • Portuguese • Polish • Romanian • Greek • Serbo-Croatian • others
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (Mainly Protestantism and Roman Catholicism); Minority religions: Judaism, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Non-Hispanic Whites, White Southerners, European diaspora, Europeans, European Canadians, European Australians, European New Zealanders, White South Africans, British (English, Scottish, Welsh, Ulster-Scots), German, Irish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Croatian, Albanian, Bosnian, Romanian Americans, Hungarian Americans, Bulgarian Americans, Dutch Americans, Turkish Americans, Slovak Americans, Portuguese Americans, Spanish Americans

German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French and Scottish are the most common European ancestries in the United States. Eastern European immigrants such as Romanians are more recent.

Many Roma and Jews have arrived to the United States via Europe.

Some European Americans have African and Native American ancestry. 3.5% of European Americans carry African ancestry. In South Carolina and Louisiana, around 12% of European Americans have at least 1% African ancestry.

• White Americans