While 86 percent of Hindus report identifying with some kind of “Indian” identity, 71 percent of Christians and 52 percent of Muslims do the same. Relative to Muslims, Christians and Hindus are equally likely to self-identify as “Indian American” (47 percent each versus 32 percent for Muslims), and Hindus are substantially more likely to self-identify as “Indian” (32 percent versus 17 percent for Christians and 12 percent for Muslims). On the other hand, Muslims are much more likely to self-identify as “South Asian” (27 percent compared to 7 percent of Christians and 5 percent of Hindus). Finally, Christians are more likely to self-identifyas “American” without any hyphenation (9 percent versus 6 percent for Muslim and 4 percent for Hindus).
Region and language
- Language Percentage
- Hindi 19%
- Gujarati 14%
- English only 10%
- Telugu 10%
- Tamil 9%
- Punjabi 7%
- Bengali 7%
- Malayalam 6%
- Urdu 5%
- Marathi 4%
- Kannada 3%
- Other 7%
- N = 1,200 U.S. adult results