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Finnish Americans
*Amerikansuomalaiset*
*Amerikafinländare*
Total population
653,222 (2019 US Census) 0.20% of the US population
Regions with significant populations
Midwest	190,289
West	105,334
South	54,630
Northeast	45,131
Michigan	68,203
Minnesota	63,929
California	32,028
Washington	31,385
Wisconsin	27,011
Florida	18,990
Oregon	15,141
Massachusetts	14,279
Ohio	11,003
Illinois	10,913
Arizona	9,783
Texas	9,658
New York	8,430
Colorado	8,111
New Hampshire	5,871
Languages
American English · Finnish · Swedish
Religion
Lutheranism
Related ethnic groups
Finnish people · Finnish Canadians · Estonian Americans · Sami Americans · Scandinavian Americans

A map showing concentrations of Finnish American ethnicity in the United States.

Finnish Americans (Finnish: amerikansuomalaiset pronounced [ˈɑmerikɑnˌs̠uo̯mɑlɑi̯s̠et̪]) comprise Americans with ancestral roots from Finland or Finnish people who emigrated to and reside in the United States. The Finnish American population numbers a little bit more than 650,000.

Notes

European Americans

Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech Silesian German¹ Amish Frisian German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish¹ Kashubian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss

Eastern Europe	Armenian Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn

Northern Europe	Estonian Finnish Latvian Lithuanian Scandinavian Danish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish

Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Turkish⁴

Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano

Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Basque Breton Cajun Corsican Irish

Other Europeans	Ashkenazi Jews⁷ Sephardi Jews⁷ Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños

¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ² Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. ⁷ Disputed; Jews and Roma both have recognised origins and historic ties to Asia (the Levant and Northern India respectively), but individual groups listed here experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.

Images for kids

Bilingual street signs in English and Finnish in Hancock, Michigan, home of Finlandia University.
Suomi Hall, a meeting hall of Finnish immigrants, in Astoria, Oregon.

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