United States: haplogroups
FamilyTreeDNA has 30,921 kits with a Y-DNA result and 20,184 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are R1b-L51 — 60%, I1-DF29 — 10% and I2 — 7%. On the maternal line the most common are H — 40%, U — 13% and T2 — 8%. YFull has 2,591 samples for Y from the same area, and its mix of major branches is almost the same. The largest gap is R1b-L51: 60% on FTDNA against 43% on YFull.
Compare with…Paternal line · Y-DNA
30,921 kits · 30 branchesAmong the rest: G 687, Q 230, T 126, A 90, B 54, N 50, H 41, L 35, C 34, O 25, D 5, F 5, P 2, M 1.
Maternal line · mtDNA
20,184 kits · 30 branchesAmong the rest: B 163.
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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United States: 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.
- E-M4895: 1,173 kits · 3.8% (95% confidence interval: 4–4%) (×3.4) 9,400 years
- E-L485: 718 kits · 2.3% (95% confidence interval: 2–2%) (×3.4) 9,100 years
- E-U175 E-U175: 431 kits · 1.4% (95% confidence interval: 1–2%) (×3.4) 8,800 years
- E-U174: 436 kits · 1.4% (95% confidence interval: 1–2%) (×3.4) 4,800 years
- E-L514: 586 kits · 1.9% (95% confidence interval: 2–2%) (×3.2) 8,500 years
- E-M191 E-M191: 499 kits · 1.6% (95% confidence interval: 1–2%) (×3.0) 5,900 years
Most similar countries
Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.
All 111 countries and regions by similarity
- Canada 92%
- United Kingdom 92%
- England 92%
- Scotland 88%
- Northern Ireland 83%
- France 83%
- Wales 82%
- Ireland 82%
- Netherlands 80%
- Australia 79%
- Germany 79%
- Belgium 77%
- Denmark 76%
- Switzerland 72%
- England (Cornish) 70%
- Brazil 65%
- Portugal 65%
- Spain 62%
- Norway 62%
- Sweden 61%
- South Africa 61%
- New Zealand 61%
- Italy 60%
- Puerto Rico 60%
- Austria 59%
- Czech Republic 58%
- Jamaica 55%
- Luxembourg 55%
- Cuba 55%
- Hungary 54%
- Mexico 54%
- Colombia 52%
- Poland 50%
- Slovenia 45%
- Slovakia 45%
- Dominican Republic 45%
- Romania 44%
- Argentina 44%
- Isle of Man 44%
- Chile 43%
- Ukraine 42%
- Greece 41%
- Russia 40%
- Bulgaria 39%
- Italy (Sicily) 36%
- Lithuania 35%
- Belarus 35%
- Latvia 35%
- Croatia 34%
- Iceland 34%
- Serbia 33%
- Peru 32%
- Macedonia 30%
- Estonia 30%
- Israel 29%
- Turkey 29%
- Moldova 28%
- Albania 26%
- Finland 26%
- Lebanon 26%
- Armenia 24%
- Morocco 24%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 24%
- Tatarstan 23%
- Egypt 23%
- Azerbaijan 23%
- Algeria 22%
- Iraq 22%
- Iran 22%
- Syria 22%
- Bahrain 21%
- Montenegro 21%
- Kuwait 20%
- Mordovia 20%
- Palestine 20%
- Saudi Arabia 20%
- Tunisia 19%
- Georgia 19%
- Qatar 18%
- United Arab Emirates 18%
- Chuvashia 17%
- Libya 17%
- Bashkortostan 17%
- Kazakhstan 16%
- Uzbekistan 16%
- India 16%
- Jordan 16%
- Dagestan 16%
- Nigeria 16%
- Ghana 15%
- Oman 15%
- Afghanistan 14%
- Adygea 14%
- Cameroon 13%
- Sudan 13%
- Tajikistan 13%
- Yemen 13%
- Philippines 11%
- Pakistan 11%
- Sri Lanka 9%
- Indonesia 9%
- Chechnya 8%
- China 7%
- Mongolia 6%
- Orstkhoy (Aosta Valley in FTDNA) 6%
- Somalia 5%
- Karelia 5%
- Vietnam 5%
- Japan 5%
- Ingushetia 4%
- South Korea 4%
United States: 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.
- H5h: 14 kits · 0.1% (95% confidence interval: 0–0%) (×3.9)
- H27c: 18 kits · 0.1% (95% confidence interval: 0–0%) (×3.4)
- W6c: 18 kits · 0.1% (95% confidence interval: 0–0%) (×3.2)
Most similar countries
Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.
All 70 countries and regions by similarity
- England 95%
- United Kingdom 94%
- Scotland 92%
- Germany 92%
- Ireland 92%
- France 90%
- Sweden 88%
- Netherlands 87%
- Norway 87%
- Canada 86%
- Wales 86%
- Switzerland 85%
- Denmark 84%
- Czech Republic 83%
- Poland 83%
- Northern Ireland 83%
- Austria 82%
- Belgium 82%
- Russia 81%
- Hungary 81%
- Portugal 80%
- Italy 80%
- Spain 79%
- Slovakia 78%
- Ukraine 76%
- Australia 74%
- Estonia 71%
- Slovenia 71%
- Finland 71%
- Lithuania 71%
- Romania 70%
- Croatia 70%
- Bulgaria 69%
- Serbia 68%
- Latvia 66%
- Greece 66%
- Belarus 65%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 62%
- Algeria 58%
- Morocco 56%
- Moldova 55%
- Turkey 54%
- Israel 54%
- Syria 52%
- Brazil 50%
- Cuba 49%
- Chechnya 49%
- South Africa 48%
- New Zealand 47%
- Armenia 46%
- Egypt 45%
- Lebanon 45%
- Saudi Arabia 39%
- Iraq 38%
- Dominican Republic 35%
- Iran 35%
- Kuwait 32%
- United Arab Emirates 32%
- Mexico 30%
- Puerto Rico 29%
- Argentina 26%
- Jamaica 24%
- India 21%
- Canada (First Nations) 19%
- Colombia 14%
- Chile 13%
- China 9%
- Japan 4%
- Philippines 1%
- South Korea 1%
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. The tree shows only its top three levels.
Y-DNA
mtDNA
The same country on the project maps
Y-DNA FTDNA 30,921 · Projects 14,630
mtDNA FTDNA 20,184 · Projects 8,857
New this month #
FTDNA: how much the kit count grew between the tree copies of 2026-10-09 and 2026-11-12. A kit that moved to a new sub-branch after refinement is not counted as new. YFull: samples YFull itself marks as new, in the copy of 2026-11-02; YFull drops the mark after a few weeks.
Y-DNA: branches that grew
- R-Z39589* R1b-Z39589: +7
- I-L813: +5
- I-S2293: +5
- R-S1690: +5
- R-L21* R1b-L21: +4
- R-Z31*: +4
- R-ZZ12_1*: +4
- R-ZZ19_1*: +4
- E-BY3880*: +3
- E-U174: +3
- I-FGC20030: +3
- I-Z2535: +3
- R-CTS4179: +3
- R-DF21* R1b-DF21: +3
- R-FGC5561: +3
- R-L20: +3
- R-L47*: +3
- R-P312* R1b-P312: +3
- R-Z31644: +3
- R-Z8*: +3
- R-ZZ10_1*: +3
- E-S2979: +2
- E-U175: +2
- I-CTS595: +2
- I-FGC15071*: +2
- I-L22* I1-L22: +2
- I-L38 I2-L38: +2
- I-P109*: +2
- I-S7660: +2
- I-Z2040: +2
- and 73 more
mtDNA: branches that grew
- H1a: +6
- T2b: +5
- J1c: +4
- U5b: +4
- H1c: +3
- H5a: +3
- H6a: +3
- K2a: +3
- L2a: +3
- L3e: +3
- X2b: +3
- H11a: +2
- H1q: +2
- H3v: +2
- J1b: +2
- J2a: +2
- K1a: +2
- K1c: +2
- L1c: +2
- T2a: +2
- T2c: +2
- U2e: +2
- U4c: +2
- U5a: +2
- A2g: +1
- B2c: +1
- B4a: +1
- C1b: +1
- H104: +1
- H10a: +1
- and 36 more
New Y-DNA samples in YFull
- R-FTC15271 ×2
- I-Y6639 · Pennsylvania
- J-BY65054 · Virginia
- N-Y53167 · Washington
- R-A15900 · West Virginia
- R-BY3555 · Virginia
- R-BY50280 · Tennessee
- R-DF27 R1b-DF27 · North Carolina
- R-FT13273 · Texas
- R-FT70123 · Illinois
- R-FTA18784 · Oregon
- R-FTC15271 · North Carolina
- R-FTC15271 · Maryland
- R-S6219 · North Carolina
- R-Y100721 · Maine
- R-Y157570 · New York
- R-Y157570 · California
New mtDNA samples in YFull
Subregions #
Each bar is all the kits of one place; a colour is a group of haplogroups. The “United States” line holds kits that name only the country, without a region. A faded line has fewer than 20 kits; its shares are unreliable.
Y-DNA
mtDNA
Regions on YFull #
Regions that cannot be picked at FTDNA but are reported by YFull customers. Regions with 20 or more samples are shown; modern YFull customers only. YFull regions →
| Country / region | Y | mt | Leading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia US-VA | 375 | 66 | R-L51 R1b-L51 41%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 20%, I-P215 I2 17% |
| North Carolina US-NC | 197 | 51 | R-L51 R1b-L51 40%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 19%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 11% |
| South Carolina US-SC | 143 | 20 | R-P312 R1b-P312 34%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 13%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 12% |
| Pennsylvania US-PA | 132 | 59 | R-P312 R1b-P312 40%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 21%, I-P215 I2 19% |
| California US-CA | 122 | 83 | R-P312 R1b-P312 40%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 10%, R-U106 R1b-U106 8% |
| New York US-NY | 118 | 78 | R-L51 R1b-L51 45%, I-P215 I2 16%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 8% |
| Texas US-TX | 107 | 81 | R-L51 R1b-L51 49%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 12%, I-P215 I2 10% |
| Maryland US-MD | 103 | 17 | R-P312 R1b-P312 34%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 19%, I-P215 I2 13% |
| Massachusetts US-MA | 93 | 39 | R-L51 R1b-L51 41%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 15%, I-P215 I2 6% |
| Georgia US-GA | 76 | 28 | R-P312 R1b-P312 38%, J-M410 J2a 11%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 8% |
| Tennessee US-TN | 70 | 34 | R-L51 R1b-L51 53%, I-P215 I2 20%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 6% |
| New Jersey US-NJ | 70 | 32 | R-L51 R1b-L51 39%, R-M198 R1a-M198 16%, I-CTS616 I2b-CTS616 9% |
| Ohio US-OH | 69 | 55 | R-L51 R1b-L51 39%, I-P215 I2 23%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 12% |
| Kentucky US-KY | 65 | 22 | R-P312 R1b-P312 48%, I-P215 I2 15%, R-U106 R1b-U106 11% |
| Illinois US-IL | 53 | 54 | R-L51 R1b-L51 38%, R-Y35 R1a-Y35 8%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 8% |
| Alabama US-AL | 48 | 39 | R-P312 R1b-P312 31%, I-P215 I2 13%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 10% |
| Mississippi US-MS | 45 | 16 | E-M191 E-M191 24%, R-U106 R1b-U106 22%, R-P312 R1b-P312 13% |
| Washington US-WA | 38 | 29 | R-P312 R1b-P312 39%, R-Z304 R1b-Z304 8%, I-P215 I2 8% |
| Indiana US-IN | 36 | 28 | R-L51 R1b-L51 31%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 14%, I-CTS616 I2b-CTS616 11% |
| Michigan US-MI | 31 | 33 | R-L51 R1b-L51 23%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 16%, R-CTS1211 R1a-CTS1211 10% |
| Florida US-FL | 31 | 25 | R-P312 R1b-P312 39%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 13%, R-Z304 R1b-Z304 10% |
| Missouri US-MO | 27 | 26 | R-DF13 R1b-DF13 19%, E-M96 E 15%, I-CTS616 I2b-CTS616 11% |
| West Virginia US-WV | 27 | 12 | R-P312 R1b-P312 41%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 19%, R-L48 R1b-L48 15% |
| Louisiana US-LA | 23 | 22 | I-P215 I2 26%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 13%, R-U106 R1b-U106 13% |
| Vermont US-VT | 21 | 9 | R-P312 R1b-P312 48%, R-U106 R1b-U106 29%, I-L758 I 14% |
| Arkansas US-AR | 20 | 15 | R-DF13 R1b-DF13 20%, R-Z284 R1a-Z284 15%, E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a) 15% |
| Connecticut US-CT | 20 | 11 | R-P312 R1b-P312 30%, R-Z282 R1a-Z282 15%, I-Z58 I1-Z58 15% |
| Oregon US-OR | 19 | 20 | R-DF27 R1b-DF27 21%, J-M172 J2 16% |
| Wisconsin US-WI | 18 | 23 | R-L51 R1b-L51 50%, I-DF29 I1-DF29 22%, R-Z282 R1a-Z282 17% |
Peoples and languages on YFull #
Native language reported by YFull customers from this country. People from regions with a page of their own (republics, autonomies) are shown there. These are the testers' own answers, not a census.
- English 329 / 265
- Gullah 4 / 3
Recent kin across borders #
Shared young paternal branches: YFull customers from this country and from the partner country have a common paternal-line ancestor no older than 500 years. The comparison accounts for how linked a country is abroad overall: shown are partners with more shared branches than its general openness would give. It reflects recent migration and shared ancestry, not ethnicity.
| Country | shared branches | expected | × | chance? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | 72 | 14.7 | 4.9 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| United Kingdom | 70 | 17.5 | 4.0 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| Scotland | 48 | 11.4 | 4.2 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| Ireland | 34 | 9.6 | 3.6 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| Canada | 7 | 2.9 | 2.4 | unlikely by chance p = 0.021 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1.9 | 3.2 | unlikely by chance p = 0.009 |
| Wales | 5 | 0.72 | 6.9 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| France | 5 | 1.7 | 2.9 | unlikely by chance p = 0.024 |
Paternal and maternal lines together #
Members of this people with both lines known on YFull. For each “Y branch × mt branch” combination, how many times it occurred and how many would be expected if the two lines had nothing to do with each other. Y and mt pairs → n=1,164
Notably above chance
| Y | mt | pairs | expected by chance | × | chance? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-M191 | L3e | 6 | 0.3 | 19.40 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| E-U175 | L1c | 5 | 0.3 | 20.35 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| I1-Z59 | T2b | 7 | 2.1 | 3.26 | unlikely by chance p = 0.004 |
| R1b-DF27 | J1c | 6 | 1.7 | 3.55 | unlikely by chance p = 0.005 |
Most frequent combinations
| Y | mt | pairs | expected by chance | × | chance? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1b-DF13 | J1c | 9 | 4.6 | 1.95 | could be chance p = 0.034 |
| I1-Z59 | T2b | 7 | 2.1 | 3.26 | unlikely by chance p = 0.004 |
| E-M191 | L3e | 6 | 0.3 | 19.40 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| R1b-DF13 | H1a | 6 | 4.3 | 1.39 | could be chance p = 0.260 |
| R1b-DF13 | K1a | 6 | 4.6 | 1.30 | could be chance p = 0.312 |
| R1b-DF27 | J1c | 6 | 1.7 | 3.55 | unlikely by chance p = 0.005 |
| E-U175 | L1c | 5 | 0.3 | 20.35 | unlikely by chance p < 0.001 |
| R1b-DF13 | T2b | 5 | 4.8 | 1.04 | could be chance p = 0.536 |
Ancient samples
Colonial American 33 · Enslaved African American 32 · Southern Channel Islander 18 · Chumash people 6 · Native American 5
All ancient samples →Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 30,921 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 20,184 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 2,591 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 1,266 samples.
How to cite: ftdnastat, "United States: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/united-states/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.
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