Popularity ranking · United States

The 100 most popular Languages in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest languages in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 268 languages tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Spanish language, Japanese language and English language lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 66M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 2.8M, and the largest, Spanish language, reaches around 30M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each language, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Spanish language 30M 39.0 53.4% Language
2 Japanese language 18M 32.9 49.9% Language
3 English language 17M 40.3 54.5% Language
4 Ancient Greek 16M 49.2 57.6% Language
5 Italian language 10M 41.5 60.3% Language
6 Korean language 7.8M 30.8 64.4% Language
7 Russian language 7.7M 42.5 45.2% Language
8 Chinese language 7.6M 39.6 61.9% Language
9 Urdu 7.1M 30.3 47.8% Language
10 Hebrew language 6.4M 46.6 54.4% Language
11 Portuguese language 5.8M 40.8 49.6% Language
12 Greek language 5.3M 43.9 58.3% Language
13 Hindi 5.3M 37.0 53.8% Language
14 German language 5.1M 41.1 64.8% Language
15 Sanskrit 4.7M 41.5 70.6% Language
16 Punjabi language 4.4M 36.9 47.4% Language
17 Tamil language 4.4M 37.4 50.6% Language
18 French language 4.3M 37.7 58.4% Language
19 Assamese language 4.2M 44.7 67.0% Language
20 Germanic languages 4.2M 40.8 53.9% Language
21 Persian language 4.2M 44.2 53.4% Language
22 Romance languages 3.9M 39.7 50.9% Language
23 Modern Standard Arabic 3.5M 42.3 50.8% Language
24 Bengali language 3.5M 39.2 48.8% Language
25 Turkish language 3M 40.6 58.4% Language
26 Malay language 3M 35.9 55.3% Language
27 Tagalog language 2.9M 42.7 56.7% Language
28 Polish language 2.9M 42.1 61.6% Language
29 Thai language 2.8M 41.0 61.3% Language
30 Ukrainian language 2.6M 38.6 30.8% Language
31 Gujarati language 2.5M 43.4 65.3% Language
32 Vietnamese language 2.5M 44.0 51.2% Language
33 Khmer language 2.3M 39.4 38.8% Language
34 Kannada language 2.3M 43.8 66.8% Language
35 Telugu language 2.3M 40.9 62.6% Language
36 Canadian English 2.3M 44.5 55.5% Language
37 Dutch language 2.1M 43.0 57.4% Language
38 Cherokee language 2M 50.1 57.3% Language
39 Modern Hebrew 2M 48.6 51.8% Language
40 Marathi language 2M 43.3 64.2% Language
41 Kurdish languages 2M 42.8 42.5% Language
42 Irish language 1.9M 47.0 60.3% Language
43 Navajo language 1.9M 50.2 57.8% Language
44 Filipino language 1.8M 43.4 57.8% Language
45 Galician language 1.7M 42.8 60.6% Language
46 Italic languages 1.7M 38.9 63.9% Language
47 Old French 1.7M 39.9 63.4% Language
48 Hawaiian language 1.6M 44.9 61.9% Language
49 Indonesian language 1.5M 39.9 56.0% Language
50 Ojibwe language 1.5M 52.0 52.3% Language
51 Sign language 1.5M 40.5 66.5% Language
52 Hindustani language 1.3M 39.2 51.1% Language
53 Iranian languages 1.2M 39.6 57.6% Language
54 Biblical Hebrew 1.2M 40.8 50.0% Language
55 Malaysian language 1.1M 33.8 57.4% Language
56 Pashto language 1.1M 44.6 41.6% Language
57 Albanian language 1.1M 43.4 58.5% Language
58 Serbian language 1.1M 40.4 53.9% Language
59 Swahili language 1.1M 34.3 43.3% Language
60 Catalan language 998k 39.3 52.6% Language
61 Hungarian language 978k 45.8 61.0% Language
62 Choctaw language 966k 48.3 60.9% Language
63 Māori language 937k 38.5 52.3% Language
64 Haitian Creole 910k 37.2 50.7% Language
65 Burmese language 889k 41.4 57.0% Language
66 Cebuano language 861k 41.6 53.4% Language
67 Indo-Aryan languages 859k 37.3 41.2% Language
68 Nepali language 857k 40.8 59.1% Language
69 Lao language 785k 41.0 52.7% Language
70 Slovak language 778k 44.0 60.1% Language
71 American Sign Language 766k 35.5 72.0% Language
72 Kapampangan language 745k 40.5 49.0% Language
73 Romanian language 713k 42.8 49.2% Language
74 Yoruba language 704k 43.1 53.1% Language
75 Maguindanao language 666k 42.4 51.2% Language
76 Standard Tibetan 613k 43.8 55.3% Language
77 Aramaic language 583k 41.8 58.4% Language
78 Armenian language 579k 39.3 54.5% Language
79 Sardinian language 577k 49.1 68.0% Language
80 Creole language 549k 38.7 62.5% Language
81 Northern Sotho language 514k 42.2 68.1% Language
82 Jamaican English 455k — — Language
83 Hmong language 444k 34.0 51.4% Language
84 Tigrinya language 439k 38.4 52.1% Language
85 Egyptian language 437k 43.1 49.8% Language
86 Kalimba 423k 41.1 50.2% Language
87 Somali language 420k 37.9 50.7% Language
88 Garifuna language 414k 37.6 49.8% Language
89 Norwegian language 409k 40.7 51.5% Language
90 Croatian language 377k 42.1 51.5% Language
91 Icelandic language 376k 38.9 50.2% Language
92 Haida language 375k 43.8 54.3% Language
93 Berber languages 372k 37.8 39.5% Language
94 Swedish language 345k 43.0 55.4% Language
95 Cajun French 340k 42.3 67.6% Language
96 Slavic languages 327k 43.8 29.5% Language
97 Indo-European languages 289k 37.6 53.7% Language
98 Celtic languages 285k 44.1 60.8% Language
99 Czech language 276k 42.9 48.6% Language
100 Uyghur language 267k 41.8 49.9% Language

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular languages compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each language by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest language in United States?

Spanish language currently leads with an estimated audience of 30M people in United States.

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