What are the top 10 rarest eye colors?
What Is the Rarest Eye Color?
- Green eyes. If you have green eyes, you’re in luck.
- Hazel eyes. A blend of brown and green, hazel eyes represent 18% of the American population.
- Blue eyes. If you have blue eyes, you’re related (sort of) to every other person who has blue eyes.
- Brown eyes.
- Other eye colors.
Why are there different shades of blue eyes?
Eye color is the result of variations in the amount of melanin, a pigment found in the front part of the iris of the eye. The lack of this pigment results in blue eyes, some pigment gives green and lots of pigment gives brown eyes. All of the different shades of eye color happen the same way.
Is blue the rarest eye color?
People have a variety of different eye colors. Your eye color is largely determined by genetics. Green eyes are the rarest color. People can also have blue eyes, (LearnMore) gray eyes, (LearnMore) or hazel eyes.
Are blue eyes rare or common?
Between 8 and 10 percent of people worldwide have blue eyes. Blue eyes are most common in Europe, especially Scandinavia. People with blue eyes have the same genetic mutation that causes eyes to produce less melanin. The mutation first appeared in a person living in Europe about 10,000 years ago.