![]() Percent of the population with Somali ancestry by state | |
Total population | |
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164,723 (2022) Total Somali ancestry[1] 76,205 (2008-2012) Somalia-born[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, San Diego, Grand Island, Nebraska | |
Languages | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Somali Canadians |
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland. They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived. However, it was not until the mid and late 1990s when the civil war in Somalia broke out that the majority of Somalis arrived in the United States. The Somali community in the U.S. is now among the largest in the Somali diaspora.
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