ANCESTRY (single or multiple)	Number	Percent
Total population	6,349,097	100.0
Total ancestries reported	7,309,014	115.1
Irish	1,428,472	22.5
Italian	860,079	13.5
English	721,905	11.4
French (except Basque)	508,784	8.0
German	377,152	5.9
Polish	323,210	5.1
French Canadian	310,572	4.9
Portuguese	279,722	4.4
United States or American	244,572	3.9
Scottish	162,357	2.6
Swedish	119,267	1.9
Russian	110,033	1.7
Scotch-Irish	99,759	1.6
Sub-Saharan African	80,274	1.3
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)	81,451	1.3
Greek	78,172	1.2

Table 6:  Reported ancestry for Massachusetts in Census 2000. Data based on a sample.  Note that there were about 15% more ancestries than people, since some people¾as with multiple races, relatively few¾reported more than one ancestry.[i]

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[i] Other ancestries with less than 1% of the population: Arab: 53,511, 0.8%; Lithuanian: 51,054, 0.8%; Dutch: 43,727, 0.7%; Norwegian: 36,106, 0.6%; Ukrainian: 22,616, 0.4%; Welsh: 23,719, 0.4%; Danish: 16,335, 0.3%; Hungarian: 18,427, 0.3%; Czech 1 : 15,562, 0.2%; Swiss: 10,191, 0.2%; Slovak: 6,690, 0.1%; Other ancestries..: 1,225,295, 19.3%.  Source: Table DP-2.  Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000, Geographic area: Massachusetts (http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/dptables/2k25.xls).