Arab Americans

Arab Americans (Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا, romanized: ʻArab Amrīkā or Arabic: العرب الأمريكيون, romanized: al-ʻArab al-Amrīkīyūn) are Americans who trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arabic-speaking countries. In the United States census, Arabs are racially classified as White Americans which is defined as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa".

Data from the 2020 U.S. census regarding Arab Americans is categorized under the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) group, which included 3.522 million people identified as MENA alone or in any combination with another group. Within this population, over 2.5 million people reported MENA descent alone. This classification, included for the first time in the 2020 census, includes both Arabic-speaking groups, for instance Lebanese Americans, or Egyptian Americans and non-Arabic speaking such as Iranian Americans and Israeli Americans. The Lebanese Americans was the largest MENA alone or in any combination group with 685,672 people. The following largest groups were Egyptians Americans with 396,854, Syrian Americans with 222,196 and Iraqi Americans with 212,875. Additionally 238,921 defined themselves as simply "Arabs".

According to the 2010 United States census, there were 1,698,570 Arab Americans in the United States. 290,893 persons defined themselves as simply Arab, and a further 224,241 as Other Arab. Other groups on the 2010 census are listed by nation of origin, and some may or may not be Arabs, or regard themselves as Arabs. The largest subgroup was also by far the Lebanese Americans, with 501,907, followed by; Egyptian Americans with 190,078, Syrian Americans with 187,331, and Iraqi Americans with 105,981. Approximately 1/4 of all Arab Americans claimed two ancestries. A number of these ancestries are considered undercounted, given the nature of Ottoman immigration to the US during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A number of ethnic and ethnoreligious groups in West Asia and North Africa that lived in majority Arab countries and are now resident in the United States are not always classified as Arabs but some may claim an Arab identity or a dual Arab/non-Arab identity; they include Assyrians, Israelis, Jews (in particular Mizrahi Jews, some Sephardi Jews), Copts, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmens, Mandeans, Circassians, Shabaki, Armenians, Yazidis, Persians, Kawliya/Romani, Syrian Turkmens, Berbers, and Nubians.