Italian Americans

American citizens of Italian descent Ethnic group Italian AmericansItalo-americani (Italian)Italian American ancestry by PUMA and state according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey in 2023Total populationAlone (one ancestry)6,629,993 (2020 census)2.00% of the total US populationAlone or in combination16,813,235 (2020 census)5.07% of the total US populationLanguagesEnglishItalianVarious languages of ItalyItalian American pidgin (including Itanglese and Siculish)ReligionPredominantly Catholicism with small minorities practicing Greek Orthodoxy, Protestantism and JudaismRelated ethnic groupsCorsican Puerto Ricans (also Corsican Americans), Maltese Americans, Sammarinese Americans and other Italians Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani [ˌitaloameriˈkaːni]) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas. Between 1820 and 2004, approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated to the United States during the Italian diaspora, in several distinct waves,