Armenian Americans are people who self-identify as having Armenian origin; this includes immigrants from Armenia and the Middle East and those who trace their family ancestry to the Armenians. As per US Census 2020, an estimated 0.5-1 million people of Armenian origin resided in the United States.

Armenians are the third-largest population of Middle Eastern* origin living in the United States after Lebanese Americans and Iranian Americans. 

The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1950s many Armenians from the Middle East (especially from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey) migrated to the United States as a result of political instability in the region.

As per The US Census, The population of Armenian Armenian in 2020 is 460,254.

The Armenian American population in the U.S., 2000-2020

also read about Middle Eastern Americans

*The modern definition of “Asian American” now excludes people with West Asian backgrounds.  Middle Eastern Americans are the sub-group of White people as The U.S. Census Bureau. The US census defines “White” people to be those “having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.