Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian". In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was commonly used to indicate Native American. If a more specific term was needed, American Indian and East Indian were commonly used.

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  • Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian". In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was commonly used to indicate Native American. If a more specific term was needed, American Indian and East Indian were commonly used. American Indian has fallen out of favor and Native American is more commonly used to refer to the Indigenous peoples of North America. East Indian is still in common use. Currently South Asian is often used instead of East Indian. While some consider it derogatory, people of Indian origin use the term Desi to refer to the diasporic subculture of overseas Indians. The word "desi" means "of the country/homeland" in Hindi and is also used as "countryman" in the U.S.. A number of Indian Americans came to the U.S. via Indian communities in other countries such as Fiji, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom (where over 2.7% of the population is Indian), Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, Canada, Guyana, Mauritius and nations of Southeast Asia such as Malaysia and Singapore. Indian Americans are mostly Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Christian and Jain and are among the most highly educated in American demographics.
  • Les Indo-Américains sont les américains qui ont des ancêtres indiens. L'US Census a popularisé le terme Asio-Indien (Asian Indian) pour éviter la confusion avec les Indiens d'Amérique.
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  • Indian American
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  • American EnglishHindi Gujarati Urduhttp://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=687#10 other Indian languages
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  • '''1,501,782 - 2,765,815'''
    '''0.50% - 0.92% of the U.S. population
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  • Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian". In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was commonly used to indicate Native American. If a more specific term was needed, American Indian and East Indian were commonly used.
  • Les Indo-Américains sont les américains qui ont des ancêtres indiens. L'US Census a popularisé le terme Asio-Indien (Asian Indian) pour éviter la confusion avec les Indiens d'Amérique.
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  • Indian American
  • Indo-Américains
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