Arab Americans

"American Arab" redirects here. For the 2013 film, see American Arab (film).

Arab Americans
Americans with Arab ancestry by state according to the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey in 2019
Total population
2,097,642
U.S. estimate, 2018, self-reported[1]
0.639% of the U.S. population
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Arabic  · American English  · French  · Spanish  · other languages in Arab countries
Religion

Arab Americans (Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا, romanized: ʻArab Amrīkā or Arabic: العرب الأمريكيون, romanized: al-ʻArab al-Amrīkīyūn) are Americans of Arab ancestry. Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arab world. In the United States census, Arabs are a part of the "White" race group because the definition of "White" as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa".[3]

According to the 2010 US census, there are 1,698,570 Arab Americans in the United States.[4] 290,893 persons defined themselves as simply Arab, and a further 224,241 as Other Arab. Other groups on the 2010 census are listed by nation of origin, and some may or may not be Arabs, or regard themselves as Arabs. The largest subgroup is by far the Lebanese Americans, with 501,907,[5] followed by; Egyptian Americans with 190,078, Syrian Americans with 187,331,[6] Iraqi Americans with 105,981, Moroccan Americans with 101,211, Palestinian Americans with 85,186, and Jordanian Americans with 61,664. Approximately 1/4 of all Arab Americans claimed two ancestries. A number of these ancestries are considered undercounted, given the nature of Ottoman immigration to the US during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A number of ethnic and ethnoreligious groups in Western Asia and North Africa that lived in majority Arab countries and are now resident in the United States are not always classified as Arabs but some may claim an Arab identity or a dual Arab/non-Arab identity; they include Assyrians, Jews (in particular Mizrahi Jews, some Sephardi Jews), Copts, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmens, Mandeans, Circassians, Shabaki, Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Yazidis, Persians, Kawliya/Romani, Syrian Turkmens, Berbers (especially Arab-Berbers), and Nubians.[7]

  1. ^ "SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. ^ "The Arab American Institute". Archived from the original on 1 June 2006.
  3. ^ United States Census Bureau. "About the Topic of Race". Census.gov. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  4. ^ Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  5. ^ "B04003. Total Ancestry Reported". United States Census Bureau. 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  6. ^ "SELECTED POPULATION PROFILE IN THE UNITED STATES 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". American FactFinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Sending relief--and a message of inclusion and love—to our Druze sisters and brothers". Los Angeles Times. 6 April 2021.