population. [ 76 ] Ancestry groups The largest reported ancestries in the 2000 Census were German (11.8%), Irish (10.3%), English (9.2%), American (8%), Italian (6.3%), Cuban (5.2%), Puerto Rican (3.0%) French (2.8%), Polish (2.7%) and Scottish (1.8%). [ 77 ] In the 2000 Census, 1,278,586 people in Florida self-identified as having