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Filipino Americans (Filipino: Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos in North America were first documented in the 16th century [8] and other small settlements beginning in the 18th century. [9]
By the 19th century, Filipinos were living in the United States, fighting in the Battle of New Orleans and the American Civil War, with the first Filipino becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States before its end.
About 4.1 million Filipino Americans lived in the United States as of 2022, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Filipinos account for 17% of the nation’s total Asian American population. Unlike most of the other major Asian origin groups, more Filipino Americans are U.S. born than immigrants (52% vs. 48%).
The demographics of Filipino Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to the Philippines. As of the 2020 census, there were 4.4 million Filipino Americans, including Multiracial Americans who were part-Filipino living in the US.
Figures for Filipinos and all Asians based on mixed-race and mixed-group populations, regardless of Hispanic origin. See methodology for more detail. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2017-2019 American Community Survey (IPUMS). % of foreign-born population who have lived in the U.S. ...
Filipino Americans in the United States are lumped into the monolithic racial identity of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) which erases the distinctive and complex histories and experiences of different AAPI communities.
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 4.4 million Filipino Americans live in the United States, with a high concentration in such states as California, Hawaii, Texas, New York, and Illinois. Since their arrival, there have been multiple waves of Filipinos migrating to the United States.
There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups.
These are some of the reasons why respected Filipino American historian Fred Cordova referred to Filipino Americans as the “Forgotten Asian Americans.”
The Filipino diaspora in the United States was comprised of nearly 4.5 million individuals who were either born in the Philippines or reported Filipino ancestry or race, according to tabulations from the U.S. Census Bureau 2021 ACS.