| This is a list of names of ethnic groups. A group can have several names
(e.g., names in English language and in native language, obsolete
names, versions of spelling, etc.)
A
- Abenaki - Native
Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine
(Algonquin people)
- Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, Abkhazia
- Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian
Maritimes
- Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
- Achang - Yunnan, China
- Achomawi - Native
Americans of California
- Acoma - Native
Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
- Adja - Minority in Benin
- Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north
Caucasus region.
- Afar - Minority in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as
Danakil
- African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
- Afrikaners - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German
Protestants of southern Africa
- Afro-Cuban
- Afromestizos
- Afro-Trinidadian
- Agni - minority group in Côte
d'Ivoire
- Aguls - Dagestani minority group
- Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
- Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido, much of
Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time
northern Honshu, the Kamchatka
Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
- Aja - Minority group in Benin
- Ak Chin - Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono
O'odham reservation
- Akan - People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
- Akha
- Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a
reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
- Alak - from Laos
- Albanians - Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Greece.
- Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
- Algonquian - Native
Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
- Altaic peoples -
Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
- American - Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States.
- Americo-Liberians - Descendants of African slaves repatriated
to Liberia
- Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
- Amish - North American
religious minority, of German descent
- Amungme
- Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
- Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of
Australia with British descent
- Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
- Anglo-Saxon - Often used to mean a person of English ancestry
- Annamites - A people of Mongolian
descent living in Vietnam.
- Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United
States
- Apinaje
- Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread
throughout the Middle East and North Africa
- Aramean - Semitic people of the
Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
- Arapaho - Native
American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- Araucanian - Non-homogenous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Arikara - Native
American people from the upper Midwest
- Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
- Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population living as a minority
in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
- Arubans - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
- Asheninka
- Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the
Sioux peoples
- Assyrians - Middle
Eastern, principally in Syria
- Atikamekw
- Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly
Saskatchewan
- Atsugewi
- Australian aborigine - generic name for native
inhabitants of Australia
- Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
- Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of
hunter-gatherers
- Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
- Azeris - Turkic people
living in Caucasus, mostly in Azerbaijan, as well as in northwestern parts of Iran
- Aztecs - Central
American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
B
- Ba Na
- Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
- Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
- Bai - national minority of China, inhabiting
Yunnan province
- Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo; touch land only to bury their dead.
- Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of
central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli
Efé.
- Bakongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
- Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
- Baloch (also Baluch) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan
- Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and
Guinea
- Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
- Banawa
- Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
- Bandjabi
- Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
- Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
- Bapou
- Bariba - national minority in Benin
- Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
- Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs) - people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
- Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
- Basques - located in the Pyrenees
between Spain and France
- Bassa - people of Liberia
- Bassari
- Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch
speaking whites and black African women
- Bate Boiko
- Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
- Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
- Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, with a distinctive dialect of High German
- Baya-Mandjia
- Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
- Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and
northeastern Sudan
- Belarusians - Slavic
people of eastern Europe, Belarus
- Bengalis - South Asian
people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
- Berbers - a North African
people, living in Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
- Betammaribe
- Bethio
- Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa
- Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan,
of Tibetan descent
- Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
- Bit
- Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains,
comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
- Bo Y
- Bonan
- Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Serbia
- Bouganvilleans -
inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
- Brau
- Bretons - Celtic group in northwest
France
- Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
- Brulé - Native American
people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
- Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
- Bulang
- Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia
- Bulgarians - Slavic
people of southeastern Europe
- Bunjevci - Slavic
people of the Balkans
- Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
- Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo region
- Buyi - national minority of China
C
- Caddo - Native American
peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
- Cahuilla
- Caingang
- Cajuns - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also
Acadian.
- Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
- Cape Malay - Malay-descended population of the Western
Cape Province of South Africa
- Caprivian - inhabitants of the
Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
- Caribs - group of Native
American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
- Caripuna
- Carrier - Native American people of Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
- Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain and southwestern France
- Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United
States, now resident in western South Carolina
- Cayuga - Native
American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples
- Cayuse - Native
American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington
- Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
- Chechens - inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia
- Chehalis
- Chemakum
- Chemehuevi - Native
American people of the southwest United States
- Chepang
- Chere
- Cherokee - Native
American people originally of Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma
- Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of
the United States
- Chicano - a United States
citizen of Mexican origin
- Chickahominee
- Chickasaw - Native
American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
- Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
- Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia
River valley in Washington and Oregon
- Chipewyan - Native
American people of northwest Canada
- Chippewa - Native
American people inhabiting the Great
Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
- Chitimacha
- Cho Ro
- Choctaw - Native
American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
- Chukchansi
- Chumash - Group of Native
American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
- Chut
- Ciboney - Mesoamerican
inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
- Clayoquot - Native
American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Co
- Co Ho
- Co Lao
- Co Tu
- Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific
Northwest
- Cochiti - Native American people of the southwestern United States
- Cocopah
- Coeur d'Alene - Native American people of the Rocky
Mountains
- Coharie
- Coloured - term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape
Coloured
- Colville - Native
American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
- Comanche - Native
American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
- Cong
- Coquille
- Cornish - Celtic group in the southwest
of England
- Corsicans - inhabitants of island
off the south coast of France
- Costanoan - Native
American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
- Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
- Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the
Salish peoples
- Cree - widely dispersed Native
American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
- Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly
residing in Oklahoma
- Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and
European ancestry in Alaska
- Croats - Slavic people of
southeastern Europe
- Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains,
now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
- Cupeno
- Czechs - Slavic people of
central Europe
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