---
title: "About One-in-Six Americans Are Baptist"
description: "Two of the largest Baptist denominations in the U.S. — the Southern Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. — will hold national meetings in late June. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that Baptists represent the largest Protestant denominational […]"
date: "2009-06-18"
authors:
  - name: "Joseph Liu"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/06/18/about-one-in-six-americans-are-baptist/"
categories:
  - "Christianity"
  - "Size & Demographic Characteristics of Religious Groups"
  - "U.S. Religious Demographics"
---

# About One-in-Six Americans Are Baptist

Two of the largest Baptist denominations in the U.S. -- the Southern Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. -- will hold national meetings in late June. The [U.S. Religious Landscape Survey](http://religions.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/), conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that Baptists represent the largest Protestant denominational family in the U.S., making up about one-sixth (17.2%) of the total U.S. adult population.

![Baptists in the U.S.](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2012/07/baptist.gif)

Data from the [Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey](http://religions.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/), conducted May 8 to Aug. 13, 2007, among 35,556 American adults; released in 2008. Due to rounding, nested figures may not add to the subtotal indicated.