Nigerian Americans

Nigerian Americans
Total population
712,294
Regions with significant populations
Texas (especially Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and San Antonio) • Northeastern US (especially NYC, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia) • California (Los Angeles, Bay Area) • Florida (Miami, Tampa, Orlando) • Georgia (Atlanta) • Chicago • Twin Cities • Seattle • Southwestern US (Albuquerque and Phoenix) • Denver • Washington, D.C. • Maryland[1]
Languages
Predominantly

English (American, Nigerian), Pidgin, Igbo, and Yoruba (and other Southern Nigerian languages such as Nupe and Ibibio)[2]
Others

Edo, Ibibio-Anaang-Efik, Esan, Urhobo, Isoko, Idoma, Ijaw, Kanuri, Fulfulde, Hausa, Kalabari, Igala, Ikwerre, Tiv, Ebira, Nembe, Etsako, Itsekiri, and other languages of Nigeria[3]
Religion
Predominantly

Christianity (Protestantism, Catholicism)
Others

Animism, Islam (Sunni, Shia), Juju, Nigerian Chrislam, Odinani, Yoruba religion, agnosticism, and atheism[3]
Related ethnic groups
Nigerian Canadians, British Nigerians, Nigerian Australians, African Americans, Igbo Americans, Yoruba Americans

Nigerian Americans (Igbo: Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà; Hausa: Yan Amurka asalin Najeriya; Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States is rapidly growing, expanding from a small 1980 population of 25,000.[1] The 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) estimated that 712,294 residents of the US were of Nigerian ancestry.[4] The 2019 ACS further estimated that around 392,811 of these (85%) had been born in Nigeria.[5][failed verification] This puts the American-born Nigerian American population a little over 400,000. Similar to its status as the most populous country in Africa,[6] Nigeria is also the African country with the most migrants to the US, as of 2013. In a study which was carried out by consumer genetics company 23andMe which involved the DNA of 50,281 people of African descent in the United States, Latin America, and Western Europe, it was revealed that Nigeria was the most common country of origin for testers from the United States, the French Caribbean, and the British Caribbean.[7]

Most Nigerian Americans, like British Nigerians, predominantly originate from southern Nigeria, as opposed to the Islamic northern half of the country.[8]

  1. ^ a b "The Nigerian Diaspora in the United States" (PDF). Migration Policy Institute. June 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Shobola, Adeola Ayodeji (March 2010). "Scrambling for greener pastures and family disintegration in Nigeria". IFE PsychologIA. 18 (1): 221–236. doi:10.4314/ifep.v18i1.51664. hdl:10520/EJC38787.
  3. ^ a b Ogbaa, Kalu (2003). The Nigerian Americans. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313319648.
  4. ^ "Table". Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  5. ^ "Data". Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 29, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Micheletti, Steven J.; Bryc, Kasia; Esselmann, Samantha G. Ancona; Freyman, William A.; Moreno, Meghan E.; Poznik, G. David; Shastri, Anjali J.; Agee, M.; Aslibekyan, S.; Auton, A.; Bell, R. (August 6, 2020). "Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 107 (2): 265–277. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.012. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 7413858. PMID 32707084.
  8. ^ Gaudio, Rudolf P. (2011). "The Blackness of "Broken English"". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 21 (2): 230–246. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.01108.x.