As we all know that in the United States the people came from different backgrounds though English being the official language. However, there are many other languages spoken like the French language. The latest U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey reports that 1,301,443 people in the U.S. speak French at home. This includes speakers of French dialects, such as Patois and Cajun, who are over 5 years old. French is the fifth most common non-English language spoken in U.S. households, after Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Francophone communities in the United States have many different historical and geographic origins. Some Francophone communities trace their lineage as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when settlers and refugees immigrated from Europe and Canada. These groups, such as the Acadians of Maine and Louisiana have passed their language down through the generations.
The US Census reports 7,997,196 individuals with French ancestry, and an additional 2,109,242 reporting French-Canadian ancestry (2013-2017 American Community Survey).