Dominican Americans (, or ) are
Americans who have full or partial origin from the
Dominican Republic. Although their emigration began in the sixteenth century, thousands of Dominicans passed through the gates of
Ellis Island in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The most recent movement of emigration to the United States began in the 1960s, after the fall of the
Trujillo regime. In 2010, there were approximately 1.41 million people of Dominican descent in the US, including both native and foreign-born. Dominican Americans are the
fifth-largest Hispanic group in the United States.