European-Americans
| Total population | |
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234,940,100 73.1% of the total U.S. population (2015) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
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Contiguous United States and Alaska smaller populations in Hawaii and the territories |
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| Languages | |
| Predominantly English German • Russian • Spanish • Italian • French • Portuguese • others |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christian (of which majority Protestant with Roman Catholicism the largest single denomination), Judaism, Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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European diaspora Europeans • White Americans |
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Note: An additional 20,151,829 (6.2% of the population) chose “American” as their ancestry in the 2016 Community Survey. |
European Americans (also known as European-Americans) is a term used by some to refer to Americans with ancestry from Europe.
The Spanish are thought to be the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the Contiguous United States, with Martín de Argüelles (b. 1566) in St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, New Spain.Virginia Dare (b. August 18, 1587) on Roanoke Colony, present-day North Carolina, United States was the first English child and girl, in a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America. In the 2016 American Community Survey, German Americans (13.9%), Irish Americans (10.0%), English Americans (7.4%), and Italian Americans (5.2%) were the four largest self-reported European ancestry groups in the United States forming over a third of the total population. However, the English-Americans and British-Americans demography is considered by some to be under-counted, as the people in that demographic tend to identify themselves simply as Americans (20,151,829 or 6.2%).
In 1995, as part of a review of the Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting), a survey was conducted of census recipients to determine their preferred terminology for the racial/ethnic groups defined in the Directive. For the 'White' group, 'European American' came third, preferred by 2.35% of panel interviewees.
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