Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans
Người Mỹ gốc Việt

Total population
2,183,000[1] 0.7% of the total U.S. population (2018)
Regions with significant populations
Los Angeles and Orange County San Francisco Bay Area (esp. San Jose) Sacramento, California Greater Houston Dallas-Fort Worth Twin Cities metropolitan area Washington metropolitan area/Northern Virginia/Maryland Seattle area San Diego County Metro Atlanta Greater New Orleans Greater Boston Philadelphia area New York City Denver, Colorado Chicagoland Honolulu, Hawaii Greater Orlando others[2]
Languages
Vietnamese, English
Religion
Buddhism (43%)  • Catholicism (30%) Unaffiliated (20%)  • Protestantism (6%)[3][4] Vietnamese folk religion  • Caodaism  • Hòa Hảo
Related ethnic groups
Vietnamese people, Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese Canadians, Vietnamese Australians, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Hmong Americans

Vietnamese Americans (Vietnamese: Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry.^[5] They comprise approximately half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group following Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans. There are approximately 2.3 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the U.S. as of 2023.

The Vietnamese community in the United States was minimal until the exodus of South Vietnamese refugees to the country following the end of Vietnam War in 1975. More than half of Vietnamese Americans reside in the two most populous states of California and Texas, primarily their large urban areas.^[6]