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.)
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- 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
- 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 of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan
- Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
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- 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 - group unrelated to other known ethnicities, 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
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- 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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- M'Baka
- Ma
- Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
- Macuxi
- Madurese
- Magar
- Maidu
- Maingtha - see Achang
- Maka-Njem - people of southern Cameroon
- Makah
- Makua
- Makong
- Malabo
- Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
- Maliseet
- Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
- Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala
- Manchu - Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
- Mandan
- Mang
- Manx - Celts of the Isle of Man
- Maonan
- Mapuche
- Maricopa
- Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
- Maori - indigenous people of New Zealand
- Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
- Mattaponi
- Matabele - Southern Africa
- Maubere
- Maya - natives of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
- Me-Wuk
- Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
- Meherrin
- Melungeon
- Memon - India and Pakistan
- Menba
- Menominee - Eastern United States Native American
- Métis
- Miami
- Miao
- Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
- Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
- Mina
- Minahasa - Indonesia
- Mingo
- Mission
- Miwok
- Mixtec - Central American natives
- Mnong
- Modoc
- Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
- Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
- Mohican - Native Americans from New England
- Moldovan - Romanians people of Moldova, eastern Europe
- Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
- Monacan - Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
- Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and China
- Mono
- Montaukett
- Montenegrin - Slavicized Descendents of the Dinaric peoples of southeastern Europe
- Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Peninsula
- Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
- Muckleshoot
- Mulam
- Muong
- Museu
- Myene
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