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{{lang-yo|Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà}}) are [[Americans]] who are of [[Nigerians|Nigerian]] ancestry. The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the [[United States]] is rapidly growing, expanding from a small 1980 population of 25,000.<ref name ="mgi">{{cite web|date=June 2015|title=The Nigerian Diaspora in the United States|url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/RAD-Nigeria.pdf|access-date=2020-07-05|publisher=Migration Policy Institute}}</ref> The 2022 [[American Community Survey]] (ACS) estimated that 712,294 residents of the U.S.A were of Nigerian ancestry.<ref name="factfinder.census.gov">{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_1YR_B04006&prodType=table |title=Table |access-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214060948/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_1YR_B04006&prodType=table |archive-date=February 14, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref>The 2019 ACS further estimated that around 392,811 of these (85%) had been born in [[Nigeria]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_5YR/B05006/0100000US |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213005704/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_5YR/B05006/0100000US |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-02-13 |title=Data |access-date=2019-10-24 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2023}}
Similar to its status as the most populous country in Africa,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=NG |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012507/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=NG |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Nigeria is also the African country with the most migrants to the United States, as of 2013. In a study which was carried out by consumer genetics company 23andMe which involved the DNA of 50,281 people of African descent in the United States, [[Latin America]], and [[Western Europe]], it was revealed that Nigeria was the most common country of origin for testers from the United States, the [[French West Indies|French Caribbean]], and the [[British West Indies|British Caribbean]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Micheletti|first1=Steven J.|last2=Bryc|first2=Kasia|last3=Esselmann|first3=Samantha G. Ancona|last4=Freyman|first4=William A.|last5=Moreno|first5=Meghan E.|last6=Poznik|first6=G. David|last7=Shastri|first7=Anjali J.|last8=Agee|first8=M.|last9=Aslibekyan|first9=S.|last10=Auton|first10=A.|last11=Bell|first11=R.|date=2020-08-06|title=Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas|journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics|language=English|volume=107|issue=2|pages=265–277|doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.012|issn=0002-9297|pmid=32707084|pmc=7413858}}</ref>
Most Nigerian Americans, like [[British Nigerians]], predominantly originate from southern Nigeria, as opposed to the [[Islam in Nigeria|Islamic northern]] half of the country.<ref name="The Blackness of Broken English">{{Cite journal|url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.01108.x|doi=10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.01108.x|title=The Blackness of "Broken English"|year=2011|last1=Gaudio|first1=Rudolf P.|journal=Journal of Linguistic Anthropology|volume=21|issue=2|pages=230–246}}</ref>
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