Greek-American

Greek Americans
Ελληνοαμερικάνοι

Total population
1,316,074 0.4% of the U.S. population (2010) Other estimates: 3,000,000
Regions with significant populations
New York City Boston Chicago Los Angeles Washington, D.C. San Francisco Philadelphia Detroit Miami Tampa
Languages
American English Greek
Religion
Mostly Greek Orthodox, with minorities of Byzantine Catholics and Judaism

Greek speakers in the US
Year	Speakers
1910	118,379
1920	174,658
1930	189,066
1940	165,220
1960	180,781
1970	193,745
1980	401,443
1990	388,260
2000	365,436
^a Foreign-born population only

Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικάνοι, Ellinoamerikanoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. About 1.3 million American people are of Greek descent, although there are estimates that raise this number to 3 million, and 321,144 people older than five spoke Greek at home in 2010.

Greek Americans have the highest concentrations in the New York City,Boston, and Chicago regions, but have settled in major metropolitan areas across the United States. In 2000, Tarpon Springs, Florida was home to the highest per capita representation of Greek Americans in the country (11%). The United States is home to the largest overseas Greek community, ahead of Australia, Cyprus, Albania, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The first Greek known to have been to what is now the United States was Don Theodoro, a sailor who landed on Florida with the Narváez expedition in 1528. He died during the expedition, as did most of his companions.

In 1592, Greek captain Juan de Fuca (Ioannis Fokas or Apostolos Valerianos) sailed up the Pacific coast under the Spanish flag, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic. He reported discovering a body of water, a strait which today bears his name: the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which today forms part of the Canada–United States border.

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