Top Languages Spoken by Immigrants in the U.S.

Most Spoken Immigrant Languages in the United States

Ranked from highest to lower usage (after English). For each language, we list the U.S. state with the largest known population of speakers at home.

Rank	Language	State with Largest Population of Speakers
1	Spanish	California
2	Mandarin	California
3	Cantonese	New York
4	Tagalog	California
5	Vietnamese	California
6	Arabic	Michigan
7	Haitian Creole	Florida
8	French	Louisiana / Florida*
9	Korean	California
10	Russian	New York
11	Portuguese	Florida
12	Hindi	California
13	Urdu	New York
14	Bengali	New York
15	Punjabi	California
16	Gujarati	California
17	Telugu	California
18	Tamil	California
19	Persian / Farsi	California
20	Dari	California
21	Pashto	California
22	Japanese	California
23	Hmong	Minnesota
24	Khmer (Cambodian)	California
25	Thai	California
26	Lao	California
27	Ilocano	Hawaii
28	Cebuano / Bisaya	California
29	Samoan	California
30	Tongan	California / Utah*
31	Armenian	California
32	Ukrainian	New York
33	Polish	Illinois
34	Serbian	Illinois
35	Bosnian	Missouri
36	Croatian	Illinois
37	Albanian	New York
38	Greek	New York
39	Italian	New York
40	German	Texas
41	Hebrew	New York
42	Yiddish	New York
43	Amharic	Virginia / DC Metro*
44	Tigrinya / Tigrigna	Washington State
45	Oromo	Minnesota
46	Somali	Minnesota
47	Swahili	Texas
48	Yoruba	Texas
49	Igbo	Texas
50	Twi / Akan	New York
51	Wolof	New York
52	Fula / Fulani / Fulfulde	New York
53	Lingala	Texas
54	Kinyarwanda	Texas
55	Kirundi	Texas
56	Krio	Texas
57	Turkish	New York
58	Kurdish	Tennessee
59	Romanian	Illinois
60	Bulgarian	Illinois
61	Czech	Texas
62	Slovak	Pennsylvania
63	Hungarian	New York
64	Dutch	Michigan
65	Swedish	Illinois
66	Norwegian	Minnesota
67	Danish	California
68	Finnish	Michigan
69	Lithuanian	Illinois
70	Georgian	New York
71	Azerbaijani	New York
72	Uyghur	Virginia
73	Tibetan	New York
74	Mongolian	Illinois
75	Rohingya	Wisconsin
76	Karen	Minnesota
77	Marshallese	Arkansas
78	Chuukese	Hawaii
79	Hawaiian / Hawaiian Creole	Hawaii
80	Cape Verdean Creole	Massachusetts
81	Chichewa / Nyanja	Texas
82	Shona	Texas
83	Zulu	Texas
84	Afrikaans	Texas
85	ASL (American Sign Language)	California
86	Central Yup’ik	Alaska
87	Navajo	Arizona
88	Malayalam	Texas
89	Kannada	Texas
90	Sinhala	California

Disclaimer: The information in this table is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey, “language spoken at home” for people age 5+), and other governmental and public agencies such as the Migration Policy Institute and Pew Research Center. Counts are self-reported, rounded, and may group dialects differently. State listed = state with the largest known population of speakers by absolute number, not highest percentage. Data changes over time.