[1] The immigration of Copts to the United States started as early as the late 1940s.

After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from Egypt to the United States increased because of persisting persecution and discrimination against Christians in a Muslim majority nation, political turmoils and revolutions.

As of 2013, researchers estimated that there were about 350,000 Coptic Christians who settled in the United States before the 2011 Egyptian revolution, with up to 100,000 additional Copts who settled in the US after the revolution, fleeing instability and violence in Egypt.

[2] As of 2018, it was estimated that a half-million Copts lived in the United States.

[1] The historic centers of Coptic American life have been in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California.