Reported Ancestries, 1990


Ancestry Specified:
__Single Ancestry6,681,710
__Multiple Ancestry4,288,828
Ancestry unclassified66,143
Ancestry not Reported844,962

AncestrynumberPercent
Acadian/Cajun1,6490.0
Albanian2,5380.0
Alsatian6070.0
Arab
__Egyptian2,0710.0
__Iraqi2990.0
__Jordanian4310.0
__Lebanese19,2340.2
__Moroccan1,0970.0
__Palestinian8210.0
__Syrian12,5910.1
__Arab/Arabic2,8930.0
__Other Arab8100.0
Armenian6,7630.1
Assyrian3220.0
Australian1,4830.0
Austrian66,5560.6
Basque2500.0
Belgian11,8770.1
Brazilian20.0
British370.3
Bulgarian1,0100.0
Canadian11,6100.1
Carpatho3,7010.0
Celtic8950.0
Cypriot1290.0
Croatian78,7500.7
Czech29,6100.3
Czechoslovakian16,4530.2
Danish20,8750.2
Dutch354,6563.2
Eastern Europe8,7720.1
English1,274,82311.6
Estonian7270.0
European10,7050.1
Finnish8,6120.1
French (except Basque)263,9602.4
French Canadian31,0070.3
German4,316,38639.1
German Russian3130.0
Greek55,1580.5
Guyanese6190.0
Hungarian152,8631.4
Icelander5230.0
Iranian3,2140.0
Irish2,256,14320.4
Israeli2,7220.0
Italian1,374,84012.5
Latvian4,8470.0
Lithuanian103,2720.9
Luxemburger4010.0
Macedonian8080.0
Maltese3880.0
New Zealand1530.0
Northern European1,1530.0
Norwegian31,1460.3
Pennsylvania German143,0081.3
Polish882,3488.0
Portuguese12,7700.1
Romanian17,7550.2
Russian215,5132.0
Scandinavian7,4990.1
Scotch-lrish270,2992.4
Scottish223,5442.0
Serbian 19,9130.2
Slavic 8,6540.1
Slovak 447,3844.0
Slovene 14,5840.1
Soviet Union 4840.0
Subsaharan African
__Cape Verde 3460.0
__Ethiopian 5880.0
__Ghanian 4000.0
__Kenyan 960.0
__Liberian 3640.0
__Nigerian 1,9840.0
__Senegalese 450.0
__Sierra Leonean 2110.0
__Somalian 90.0
__South African 6490.0
__Sudanese 2410.0
__Ugandan 480.0
__Zairian 750.0
__Zimbabwean 420.0
__African 8,3670.1
__Other Subsaharan African 7270.0
Swedish 126,2551.1
Swiss 68,9190.6
Turkish 2,4300.0
Ukrainian 129,7531.2
United States or American 309,8142.8
Welsh 221,9642.0
West Indian
__(excluding hispanic origin groups) 2180.0
__Bahamian 7610.0
__Barbadian 1610.0
__Belizean 2460.0
__Bermudan 6330.0
__British West Indian 1520.0
__Dutch West Indian 2,2530.0
__Haitian 10,1910.1
__Jamaican 1,5090.0
__Trinidadian Tobagonian 1060.0
__U.S. Virgin Islander 3,4270.0
__West Indian 590.0
__Other West Indian 10,4460.1
Yugoslavian 1,285,96711.6
Race or Hispanic origin groups 1,087,5709.2
__*Black 15,5570.1
__American Indian 22,6150.2
__Hispanic
____Mexican 143,8721.2
____Puerto Rican 7,3900.1
____Cuban 46,6020.4
____Other Hispanic 214,2621.9
Other Groups
__Asian
____Chinese 29,4690.2
____Filipino 12,9010.1
____Asian Indian 27,4940.2
____Korean 25,4940.2
____Vietnamese 14,9610.1
____Other Asian 22,9270.2
__Pacific Islander
____Hawaiian 1,0170.0
____Other Pacific Islander 8330.0
Unclassified or not reported911,1058.3

*Race and hispanic origin groups were identified specifically in the question on race and are not shown separately in ancestry tabulations.


Source:        U.S. Census Bureau
Prepared by:   The Pennsylvania State Data Center, Penn State Harrisburg