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El Salvador: haplogroups

FamilyTreeDNA has 88 kits with a Y-DNA result and 52 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are R1b-P312 — 30%, Q-M3 — 24% and E1b1b-M35 — 5%. On the maternal line the most common are A2w — 21%, A2ap — 12% and B2 — 10%.

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2.9
Y-DNA · kits per 100,000 men
rank 82 of 123 among countries. About 3.0 million men (UN, 2023). A kit's country is the ancestor's homeland, not where the tester lives
0.8
mtDNA · kits per 100,000 people
rank 64 of 93 among countries. About 6.3 million people (UN, 2023)

Paternal line · Y-DNA

88 kits · 12 branches
Main branches of the Y tree. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches; sub-branches are indented. Age is how many years ago the branch's common ancestor lived (TMRCA).
R1b-L51
33 · 38% 6,100 years
P312
26 · 30% 4,900 years
DF27
20 · 23% 4,700 years
Z195
8 · 9% 4,600 years
DF13
4 of 88 4,600 years
Q-M3
21 · 24% 14k years
E
9 · 10% 52k years
E1b1b-M35
4 of 88 25k years
J1-P58
4 of 88 9,800 years
I2a-M26
4 of 88 12k years
G
3 of 88 28k years
T
3 of 88 28k years
other
11 · 13%

Maternal line · mtDNA

52 kits · 7 branches
Main mt-tree branches grouped by letter, sub-branches indented. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches. Age is how many years ago the branch's common foremother lived, from FTDNA data where available.
A-T152C!
30 · 58%
A2-x
25 · 48%
A2w
11 · 21% 8,400 years
A2ap
6 · 12% 9,300 years
B2
5 · 10% 18k years
C1c
4 of 52 19k years
L3
3 of 52 66k years
other
10 · 19%

Migration paths of the characteristic branches #

Paths of the region's main characteristic branches, as modelled by FamilyTreeDNA Discover, on one calendar clock: in each year a branch stands where its ancestral line was. Grey is a stretch of path shared by several branches; the large marker is the branch itself.

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  • Q-M3 · 24%
  • R-ZZ12_1 · 14%
  • Shared trunk
  • Territory: El Salvador

The time scale is logarithmic: the closer to the present, the longer a year takes.

The same branches are in the tree on this page.

El Salvador: Y-DNA #

Distinctive branches

Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.

  • Q-M3 Q-M3: 21 kits · 23.9% (95% confidence interval: 16–34%) (×48.0) 14k years
  • R-ZZ12_1: 12 kits · 13.6% (95% confidence interval: 8–22%) (×6.7) 4,600 years
  • R-DF27 R1b-DF27: 20 kits · 22.7% (95% confidence interval: 15–33%) (×4.8) 4,700 years

El Salvador: mtDNA #

Distinctive branches

Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.

  • A2w: 11 kits · 21.2% (95% confidence interval: 12–34%) (×251.1)
YFull

The same country on YFull #

The same country at the second company, YFull. Its samples are placed on the FTDNA tree by shared mutations, so the branches are comparable. FTDNA share on the left, YFull on the right, then the difference in percentage points. Republics and other sub-regions are taken out of the country, as at FTDNA. Starred branches are nearly empty at YFull: every test there is whole-genome and reaches the fine branches. Only YFull customers (YF number) are counted, no ancient DNA. YFull data of 2026-11-02.

Y-DNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 8 samples on YFull

mtDNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 6 samples on YFull

13%
Y-DNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.
19%
Big Y
rough share of kits with a Big Y test, a full read of the Y chromosome. It is estimated from the branches where the region's kits sit, so it is an estimate, not a count.
25%
mtDNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.

Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 88 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 52 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 8 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 6 samples.

How to cite: ftdnastat, "El Salvador: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/el-salvador/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.

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