Jamaican Americans

Americans of Jamaican birth or descent Ethnic group Jamaican AmericansJumiekan Amoerkan dem (Jamaican Patois)Total population1,234,336 (2022) 0.37% of the U.S. population (2022)Regions with significant populationsMajority in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida and Georgia Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Minnesota, Texas, Washington, Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Michigan and South CarolinaLanguagesEnglish (American English, Jamaican English, African-American English, African-American Vernacular English), Jamaican PatoisReligionPredominantly Protestantism. Some adherents of Catholicism, Rastafari, and other faiths.Related ethnic groupsBritish Jamaicans, Jamaican Canadians, Jamaican Australians, West Africans, Afro-Jamaicans, European Jamaicans, Taíno, Afro Americans, Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, Arab Americans, Hakka Americans, Native Americans Part of a series on Naturalized and EthnicAfrican AmericansRepresentation of Afro-descendant Americans Terms Identity African American Black Afro-American Negro African Afro