Romanian Americans

Not to be confused with Romani Americans.

Romanian Americans
Total population
464,814 (2019)[1][2] 1,200,000 (other estimates in 2019)[3]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
American English and Romanian
Religion
Predominantly Romanian Orthodoxy,
Romanian Greek Catholicism,
Roman Catholicism, Judaism and smaller Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Romanian Canadians, European Americans, Moldovan Americans
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The language spread of Romanian in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000

Romanian Americans (Romanian: români americani) are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 478,278 Americans indicated Romanian as their first or second ancestry,[1] however other sources provide higher estimates, which are most likely more accurate, for the numbers of Romanian Americans in the contemporary United States; for example, the Romanian-American Network supplies a rough estimate of 1.2 million who are fully or partially of Romanian ethnicity.[3] There is also a significant number of people of Romanian Jewish ancestry, estimated at 225,000.[7]

  1. ^ a b "2019 ACS 1-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. U. S. Census Bureau.
  2. ^ In 2015, according to U.S. census data, out of 166,128 ethnic Romanians born outside the United States, 131,323 were born in Romania, 20,128 in the Republic of Moldova and 1,438 in Ukraine.See https://data.census.gov/table?q=Romanians&tid=ACSDT5YSPT2015.B05006.
  3. ^ a b "Romanian-American Community". Romanian-American Network Inc. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
  4. ^ "Supplemental Table 2. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2014". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  5. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2013 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  6. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on December 22, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Wertsman, Vladimir F. (July 22, 2010). Salute to the Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850–2010: History, Achievements, and Biographies. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781453512807. Retrieved January 24, 2019 – via Google Books.