English Americans, or Anglo-Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2019 American Community Survey, 23.59 million self-identified as being of English origin. The majority of the Founding Fathers of the United States were of English extraction. English immigrants in the 19th century, as with other groups, sought economic prosperity. They began migrating in large numbers, without state support, in the 1840s and continued into the 1890s.