Egyptian Americans

Egyptian Americans
الأمريكيون المصريون
Total population
279,672 (2019 U.S. Census Bureau)[1] 1,000,000 (other estimates)
Regions with significant populations
Northern New Jersey and the New York City Metropolitan Area;[2][3][4] as well as California (especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco), Illinois, Michigan, Washington, D.C.,[5] Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia[6]
Languages
Egyptian Arabic, American English
Religion
Majority: Christianity (Coptic Orthodoxy, Coptic Catholicism, Coptic Evangelical)[7]
Minority: Islam (Sunni)
Related ethnic groups
Arab Americans

Egyptian Americans (Arabic: الأمريكيون المصريون, romanized: al-Amirīkīyūn al-Miṣrīyūn) are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000,[8] most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority.[7] Egyptian Americans may also include the Egyptian foreign-born population in the United States.[9] The US Census Bureau estimated in 2016 that there were 181,677 foreign-born Egyptians in the United States. They represented around 0.4% of the total US foreign-born population as 42,194,354 first-generation immigrants in 2016.[10] Egyptians are concentrated in New York City and Los Angeles. California has the largest Egyptian population by state.[11]

  1. ^ "2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
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  5. ^ "Ten Largest African-Born Countries of Birth in the United States by Selected Metropolmericansitan Statistical Areas: 2008–2012" (PDF).
  6. ^ Keck, Lois T. (1989). "Egyptian Americans in the Washington DC Area". Arab Studies Quarterly. 11 (2/3): 103–126. JSTOR 41859060.
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  8. ^ Bureau, U.S. Census. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 17, 2018. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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  10. ^ Bureau, U.S. Census. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 4, 2018. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ "The Egyptian Diaspora in the United States" (PDF).