Italian Americans

American citizens of Italian descent This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. When this tag was added, its readable prose size was 23556 words. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (January 2026) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Italian Americans" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 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 Ital