Most spoken languages in US homes (other than English)

How many people aged five and older speak the language at home in the US, English aside.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, as of 31 December 2021 · estimated speakers

American Community Survey 2017-2021 (estimated speakers age 5+, spoken at home)

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Rank	Entry	estimated speakers
#1	Spanish	41,160,000
#2	Chinese	3,460,000
#3	Tagalog	1,723,000
#4	Vietnamese	1,529,000
#5	Arabic	1,305,000
#6	French	1,210,000
#7	Korean	1,086,000
#8	Russian	984,000
#9	Hindi	875,100
#10	German	871,300
#11	Portuguese	868,900
#12	Haitian Creole	868,100
#13	Italian	547,500
#14	Polish	529,300
#15	Urdu	499,800
#16	Japanese	460,300
#17	Persian (Farsi)	449,100
#18	Gujarati	435,700
#19	Telugu	433,300
#20	Bengali	373,200
#21	Tamil	311,100
#22	Punjabi	309,400
#23	Greek	262,600
#24	Armenian	241,600
#25	Hmong	235,700
#26	Hebrew	221,400
#27	Amharic	220,000
#28	Nepali	198,300
#29	Yiddish	194,800
#30	Khmer	193,900
#31	Malayalam	187,500
#32	Pennsylvania German	185,200
#33	Ukrainian	184,000
#34	Romanian	176,800
#35	Yoruba	166,000
#36	Thai	164,800
#37	Albanian	163,000
#38	Navajo	161,200
#39	Somali	156,200
#40	Turkish	152,700
#41	Swahili	147,100
#42	Akan	141,000
#43	Dutch	137,000
#44	Lao	136,500
#45	Marathi	107,300
#46	Bosnian	107,000
#47	Igbo	104,300
#48	Burmese	95,320
#49	Ilocano	92,620
#50	Serbian	80,360
#51	Kannada	76,770
#52	Indonesian	75,360
#53	Hungarian	74,210
#54	Jamaican Creole English	72,000
#55	Bulgarian	71,460
#56	Tigrinya	59,420
#57	Karen	57,250
#58	Samoan	56,500
#59	Swedish	55,580
#60	Cebuano	53,970
#61	Croatian	46,960
#62	Pashto	45,930
#63	Czech	43,670
#64	Lithuanian	36,030
#65	Hawaiian	32,730
#66	Sinhala	32,640
#67	Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	32,590
#68	Afrikaans	32,030
#69	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	31,120
#70	Norwegian	28,310
#71	Marshallese	27,160
#72	Danish	26,890
#73	Tongan	25,660
#74	Kurdish	25,050
#75	Wolof	23,920
#76	Macedonian	23,540
#77	Slovak	22,470
#78	Finnish	21,320
#79	Oromo	20,000
#80	Chamorro	19,690
#81	Fulah	19,450
#82	Serbo-Croatian	19,040
#83	Tibetan	18,820
#84	Krio	18,110
#85	Hawaii Creole English	17,810
#86	Uzbek	17,610
#87	Kinyarwanda	17,400
#88	Iu Mien	17,180
#89	Mongolian	16,640
#90	Irish	16,550
#91	Georgian	16,430
#92	Central Yupik	16,120
#93	Malay	14,840
#94	Chuukese	14,700
#95	Tedim Chin	14,460
#96	Ewe	14,450
#97	Western Apache	12,730
#98	Konkani	12,660
#99	Eastern Keres	12,540
#100	Ganda	12,150

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