What Color Will My Baby’s Eyes Be?

I am not a geneticist, but the probability chart in this article seems to defy common sense and contradict reality. For example, it says that two parents with brown eyes has only 75% chance of having children with brown eyes, whereas two parents with blue eyes have 99% chance of having children with blue eyes (same with green). If this were true, then the world should be gradually filled with people with blue or green eyes. This is certainly not happening, certainly not in the three continents of Asia, South America and North America where I have lived for at least a decade each. Even if we just consider Caucasians, we would certainly see a lot more with blue or green eyes.

Hering Cheng, 8 months ago

Keep in mind that the chart assumes heterozygous parents, meaning that parents with brown eyes would be assumed to have one brown gene (dominant) and one blue or green gene (recessive). In places like Asia, Africa, and South and Central America, of course, the heterozygous assumption doesn't hold; virtually everyone there is homozygous, with two brown-eye genes. So if one or both of the parents is not caucasian, the chart isn't valid. In fact, no chart is needed at all in that case: the child will almost certainly have brown eyes.

The chart also makes some assumptions about the likelihood of a recessive gene being blue or green that probably don't hold in the general population. Really, the chart is most useful for demonstrating how different genes interact when they do come in contact than anything else.

Paul McLeod, 8 months ago

My eye color is a quirk of the eye color inheritance. One parent has blue eyes, and the other has green. I came out with brown. My mother's family has only blue eyes, and my father's side has only green, with the exception of his mother, who has brown. Explain that!

Alexis Masters, 8 months ago

This is really scientifically incorrect. Eye color depends upon dominant and recessive genes. My father has brown eyes, my mother has blue eyes and my sister and I both have green eyes. You cannot say that a child has a 0% chance of having brown eyes coming from parents with blue and green eyes. It just doesn't work that way!

sabrina, 8 months ago

I find this chart hard to believe. My daughter is expecting her first child and is hoping that her baby has her husband beautiful blue blue eyes as she has green. But I have brown and my husband has blue which the chart states that we will not have any green eyed children. Well 2 out of our 3 children have green and the other has brown like me. So I guess she will have to wait and see for herself!

Jeanna Shepard, 8 months ago

The eye chart is sort of strange to me. My Mom has brown eyes and my Dad has blue eyes. I have hazel eyes. My Mother-in-law has brown eyes and so does my Father-in-law but my husband also has hazel eyes. What does that mean for our children?

JILL, 8 months ago

I have hazel eyes (more amber), but unti I was 12 they changed from grey to hazel, then they stopped changing only lighter or darker. I am female, but look so much like my father (including the eyes). None of my siblings have my eye color, none of my father's siblings had it, none of his parents or siblings had it, only his maternal grandfather. My youngest son has medium brown eyes, but not as light as mine. My eyes look green in the sun & seem darker in the winter and lighter in the summer and I have been told they change color when I get angry. What causes this? I hate that contacts were ever invented. I am AfricaN American & no one ever believes my eyes are real even after they ask me. I can't wait to see what my grandkids will look like someday since my husband is African American & Caucasian. My great grandparents were Native American, AFrican American, & Caucasian. Genetics is really interesting. My youngest son looks Hispanic and has hair down to his rear, but very curly and people think he's hispanic, but my oldest son looks darker and AFrican American, but the only trait they share are dimples (which don't run in my family and the kids are 12 years apart in age. My middle son looks exactly like my husband. My oldest looks like my father when he was 12, and I look exactly like him as he got older. Add a mustache and cut my hair and that's him (eyes and all).

Toni B., 8 months ago

lighter colour eyes seem to be dominant in my family. My dads side of the family is from norway and chile, however all 6 kids in his family are dark skinned dark eyes. my dads sister who is dark haired dark eyed just had a baby with her husband who is 100% from south america and dark as well. The son that they had was blue eyed and blonde hair! My sister is the same as their son(light) and i also have blue eyes, however my mother has blue eyes! and my grandma has one brown eye and one blue eye ! its cool!

michelle, 8 months ago

I agree that the chart is inaccurate. My entire family has light blue eyes, and my children's father's entire family has dark brown eyes. Our daughter and younger son have eyes that are sometimes hazel and sometimes amber. They are both redheads. Our older son (the middle child) has brown hair and eyes that are sometimes yellow and sometimes light green. Everyone says they look like cat eyes. In black and white pictures, my very light blue eyes and his cat eyes look clear. It's eery. You never know what you're gonna get.

Laura, 8 months ago

I have brown & my ex has blue.
We have 3 daughters- 1-blue eyed, 1-brown, 1-green

Michelle, 8 months ago

The chart doesn't display which recessive genes the parents have, which is why there are quite a few anomalies. For the blue + brown eyed parents, the 50%/50% would indicate that the parent with brown eyes had a recessive trait for blue eyes, instead of green. If both had a recessive trait for green eyes, it would end up being something like 50% brown, 25% blue, 25% green, depending on how recessive green-eyed traits actually are.

Wes, 8 months ago

I guess this chart is somewhat true. My dad has brown eyes and my mom has green. There are 6 kids in our family and 2 have brown, 3 have blue and one has green. My grandma has the bright blue eyes, but I was just surprised that she passed that down to 3 of my brothers because neither one of my parents have ever had blue.

Julie, 8 months ago

Okay. Here is another one. My husband and I have brown eyes. So do all of our parents. Also all our sibling have brown eyes. Some almost black. My husband and I have 2 kids. The boy has blue-green eyes. The girl has hazel eyes. Very beautiful shiny, starry, and big eyes. So how did those eyes come from us??

Beatriz, 8 months ago

I'm caucasian. My Dad's eyes are gray and my mom's are medium-dark brown. I am the oldest of their 4 kids and have green eyes. #2 has blue eyes and the 3rd and 4th kids have brown. #3 has almost black eyes and #4 has medium brown like mom. Maternal Grandparents all had brown. Paternal side was a mix of brown and blue (more brown eyes than blue). There is no Gray/Brown mix so I didn't know what catagory to place my dad in. I went with blue/brown since they are closer to that than green. There is no chance of me having green eyes so what gives??

Jennie, 8 months ago

The chart says that a brown eyed parent and a green eyed parent will have 50% of having a brown eyed parent. My mom has green eyes and my dad has brown eyes. My siblings and I all have green eyes.

angel, 8 months ago

I found out that everyone with blue eyes is related to each other. It's a genetic mutation of the eye, and everyone who has blue eyes shares a common ancestor from about 6,000 - 10,000 years ago. So I have blue eyes, so if someone else out there has blue eyes, I'm related to you! And both my parents had blue eyes too, and so does my sister. My girlfriend has green eyes, so if we have kids there is a 50 50 chance of it being blue or green? Well, that's not entirely true about the most common eye color of caucasians have blue eyes, most of them have brown, actually. Just saying. I love my eyes!

Clover Winfried, 8 months ago

...or perhaps the mailman was delivering more than just the mail

Simon, 8 months ago

hola! mi esposo y yo tenemos los ojos verdes! pero por parte de mi familia hay quienes tienen ojos negros, cafes, azules, verdes. y por parte de la familia de mi esposo, hay ojos cafes y azules! asi que cual seria la posibilidad de que nuestro hijo fuera de ojos verdes???

cindy, 8 months ago

My mother has brown eyes and my father has blue...mine turned out hazel and my husbands father has blue and his mother has brown and he also has hazel eyes. So what would be the percentage there since we would more than likely posess the same amount of genes for each eye color. We are expecting our son in less than 2 months and were curious about it.

Desiree, 8 months ago

I had blue eyes up until the age of 4, then they changed to green. Both of my parents and two of my sibling have hazel eyes and one of my siblings has brown eyes. My father has one sibling with blue eyes and two with brown, and all of my mother's siblings have brown eyes. My husband has brown eyes, his father and two siblings also have brown eyes but, his mother has hazel eyes and her siblings all have light blue eyes. Some couples i know both have brown eyes and their children come out with blue, but then again i know a few other couples that they both have blue or green eyes and their children come out with brown. These charts are just useless. I really think that there is no way of predicting your future baby's eye color, though i wish there were an accurate way.

Dina, 8 months ago

You gotta think of it like cards. Brown trumps green, green trumps blue. So someone with blue eyes inherited a blue-eyed gene from both of there parents, so therefore if 2 blue-eyed ppl have a baby then yes, there is a VERY good chance the baby will have blue eyes.

Rolanda, 8 months ago

My Maternal Grandparents both have blue eyes and all 4 of their kids ended up with dark brown eyes - according to your chart this is impossible?

Vanesa, 8 months ago

Give the author a break.. Even the best geneticists don't know the science of eye color genes and there really is not exact science to predicting eye color, as of yet. There are variables and genes that have not been discovered. Don't get mad at the author for posting the information which is the best attempt for figuring out the generics of eye color in caucasian populations. All eye colors are pretty and some don't make sense. They can't expalin everything....

Jen, 8 months ago

both my parents have brown eyes I have brown eyes, my siblings have brown eyes, my husband has blue eyes both his parents have green eyes, one of my siblings has blue eyes and one has green eyes. Our first child has brown eyes, will our second have brown also??

katt, 8 months ago

RE: "Even the the best geneticists don't know the science of eye color genes...There are variables and genes that have not been discovered."

Wow, I guess someone skipped a lot of classes. Genetics and heredity are actually quite well understood, if poorly explained here. You might also want to look into a little thing called the human genome project.

And all eye colors aren't pretty either.

Paul, 7 months ago

Hi. I have gone to a few different sites about eye color and they all seem to say different things? I really think eye color is just a matter of chance.
My mother has light brown eyes and my father has hazel. My older brother has light brown eyes and my younger brother has hazel. I have dark brown eyes.
My husbands parents both have blue eyes his younger brother has blue eyes and his sister I think has blueish green eyes. My husband has blue eyes as well but sometimes they look green.
Our son is 6 months old and his eyes are a dark but slightly light blue right now. They always seem to be looking darker or almost lavender. It's so interesting to watch as they change or seem to change but then look like they aren't changing at all.

whitney, 7 months ago

Come on people! The chart says SIMPLE and MOST likely. It isn't saying it is an absolute. If you finished primary school, you would know that statistics are just averages. The chart is just a reference point. Stop trying to be unique.

Amanda, 7 months ago

No one's explained how the mulatto offspring (one brown eyed African-American parent & one Caucasian parent) sometimes have completely blue eyes. My ex-BF had blue eyes, his mother was white & his father African-American. A few of my online friends who are brown eyed African-Americans had blue eyed children with a Caucasian partner. Plus, the African-American/brown eyed actor Cuba Gooding Jr. young daughter by a Caucasian has blue eyes, his hair though. But bright blue eyes. You could look up the picture on the "celebrity baby blog" and see.

Nat, 7 months ago

Doing a mendalin cross WWxww would yield children of all dominant Ww gene - however they would be carriers Wwxww or ww could reveal a recessive gene child such a blue eyed child. This is a simplification. For eye color one gene does not control your inheritance. Two+ genes on one chromosome or two+genes on different chroms delineate eye colour...in general two blue eyed individuals are most likely to give birth to a blue eyed offspring - blue is ressive, however since brown is dominant an individual with brown eyses may be a blue, green, hazel carrier when combined with partner may give unique eye colour. Genetics is a multifacaeted topic with definate truths and maybes, don't alway be looking for the other in the woodpile. However in general blue+blue yields blue, brown plus brown could be anything and green plus green means your child is probable going to have some mighty pretty eyes.

T , 7 months ago

I was born with blues eyes, and all through out my primary school years they stayed that way right up to I was about 11 when they started to turn hazel, I have another theory on the color change I started wearing glasses when I was 10 and have over the last 14 years had my lenses strangthened 4 times. I think it is because my sight is becoming worse as i get older My eyes are now fully green and have been since i was mid teens.

Ps- I also have a son and his fathers eyes are blue and our son has blue eyes. Kelly

Kelly O, 7 months ago

interesting about Venesa's blue-eyed grandparents having 4 brown-eyed children. Both my parents have blue-grey eyes and myself and younger brother have dark brown eyes - we suspect our brown-eyed paternal uncle!

sandra, 7 months ago

I was wondering what eye color I have I've been told brown,green,hazel, and Cats eye.Please someone help me figure this out. http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/sweetsbox22/DSC03456_edited.jpg

Shannon, 7 months ago

shannon,
your eyes are almost the same as mine, i'd say green/brown, mine have less brown. but yes yours are very catlike.
so go with what you like, but i think green/brown.

Sean, 7 months ago

My mum has green eyes and my dad has blue eyes they have five kids including me. Based on the chart at least two should have green eyes. This isn't so. All four of my siblings have blue eyes and so do i.

The blue and brown percentage works in my family though. My uncle has blue eyes (red hair) and his girlfriend has brown (brown hair). Both my cousins have red hair but my uncles son has brown eyes and my uncles daughter has blue eyes.

So the above statement also makes the hair colour 'fact' false, my uncles and cousin's hair are quite light.

My father had blonde hair as a child and my mother had brown hair as a child. Now light brown and almost black. But all five of my parents children were born with blonde hair and had blonde hair until we were at least 8, when it started to get darker. Infact my sister and brother still have blonde hair. Even though they're 19 and 16.

My aunt has blue eyes and my uncle has brown eyes. Their eldest two children have brown eyes and their youngest has green eyes.

My nan and grandad had blue eyes and out of 8 children, 1 had green eyes (my mum)

Nicola , 7 months ago

This article is BULLCRAP. Genetics (even with just eyes) are not that predictable. One has to consider the genetics of the parents and grandparents of the child, not just the parents, because those genes don't just magically disappear. The writer seriously lack research in this-- and that's obvious. ANyone can look at their own families and see inconsistancies with this study.

My dad has blue eyes, my has brown. My sister got green eyes (supposedly impossible by this article, although more realistic articles will argue that you have about a 15% chance of having a green eyed baby if one parent has blue and the other brown eyes-- and higher I believe if you have a sibling with green eyes), 5 of us got brown eyes and my youngest brother got yellow/grey eyes (they're really something else. . . !)

My green eyed sister married a green eyed man; both thier kids have blue eyes (which according to this thing is not so likely).

besides, yellow and grey eyes aren't even covered here. . . nor are hazel.

Ariel, 7 months ago

My father has black eyes and my mother blue. I have a green. The probability for this is 0%?!....

Aleksandra, 7 months ago

This chart is inaccurate because my friend's mother has blue eyes and her father brown eyes and she has the most beautiful green eyes. Also, my grandparents both have blue eyes but one of their sons has brown eyes. Also, those grandparents had two daughters and both of them are green eyed which according to this chart is very unlikely!

Katherine, 7 months ago

can a father with dark brown eyes and a mother with medium green eyes have a child with dark blue eyes?

angie, 7 months ago

I think people have to remember that human genetics is not perfect yet. My family considers ourselves to be African American but, my uncle has blue eyes, my father has grey and one of my cousins has sandy blond hair. People are very complex and this chart does not account for that.

Dominica, 7 months ago

My dad has light blue eyes and mom has brown eyes her parents had one blue eyes and the other brown eyes. I have green but, when I was born I had blue eyes until I was 2 years old. My husband has brown eyes and my baby had grey Im just waiting to see what the color will be?

wanda, 7 months ago

I have green eyes, my dad has blue eyes, and mom has brown eyes the chart show's o% for that.

krystina, 7 months ago

My wife's parents both have blue eyes, my parents both have brown eyes. Her brother has blue eyes, she has hazel; which is 1% chance of occuring. My daughter has brown, and my son has blue. According to the predictors, my wife shouldn't have the color of eyes she does, and my son shouldn't have blue eyes. I'll echo a previous comment that prediction is probability and probabability is the likelyhood of an event occuring. Nothing is exact.

This is the predictor I used http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

Good discussion though:)

Ed, 7 months ago

"Wow, I guess someone skipped a lot of classes. Genetics and heredity are actually quite well understood, if poorly explained here. You might also want to look into a little thing called the human genome project.

And all eye colors aren't pretty either."

No Paul, I think YOU are the one who hasn't had many science classes. Science is constantly changing, and genetics is one part of it that is still being heavily researched because it is NOT "well understood". Despite the fact that the human genome has been/is being figured out, no one knows what all those sequences of nucleotides mean. Eye color is just one area of genetics that still has researchers stumped (if it didn't, a simple google search would give you the answer to this question). They know of three genes that definitely HELP determine eye color, but they are sure that there are even more factors that control it.

Sara, 7 months ago

It seems pretty correct to me for my family situation.

Father - Green Eyes
Mother - Pale Blue eyes
Me - Green eyes with a blue rim
Sister- Green eyes
Sister- Bright blue eyes

My grandparents on both sides had either blue or green eyes. The only family members (cousins) that have brown eyes are those with a parent from outside our bloodline with brown eyes.

Lisa, 7 months ago

i have three kids my 2 oldest has dark brown eyes and my youngest who is 4 months old has green eyes. my husband and i both have dark brown eyes but his mom, grandmother,and uncle has green eyes so im assuming my youngest gets her eyes from them. The DR. said she has up until 6 months to be a definite color

love, 6 months ago

I have brown eyes and my e had green. Both my kids have blue eyes.

sylvia , 6 months ago

Everyone needs to take into consideration the fact that this is a MOST LIKELY scenario. As a few have already pointed out, this assumes that the parents are HETEROZYGOUS (meaning, they don't have two genes for the same color). Since the gene for the color that is not shown (ie: the color that is recessive and that is masked by the dominant gene [the color shown]), there are innumerable possibilities. Also, since hazel and grey are not shown, there are still more possibilities. If you don't 'fit' the profile... its ok! It doesn't mean the key is necessarily wrong, however. Just keep an open mind and know that nature always has exceptions to rules!

Sarah, 6 months ago

I must say this is a contridiction i am british born from 2 jamacian parents both with light brown eyes and my partner is from a white mother with blue eyes and mixed race farther with brown eyes, i have brown eyes he has greenish eyes my babies eyes are bright blue which is contrasting to there skin colour

zoe, 6 months ago

I'M A MIRACLE

From the chart, I should have never had green eyes :-O

Danielle, 6 months ago

Wow - amazing how much emotion this simple article generates. Remember, the author states "simple baby eye color prediction chart based on heterozygous (the most likely) odds." Nothing says this chart is absolute, it's a very simple chart, so calm down everyone! But, yes, some of you are going to have to admit that there have been extracurricular activities among some of your ancestry that was not recorded.

Kay, 6 months ago

i dont believe in this chart,my parents have blue n brown eyes n i have green eyes,my partner has brown n our son has blue eyes which are getting lighter....
explain that????

sabrina.., 6 months ago

After reading this article I figured I should leave another comment about having green eye's .. like majority of the comments left on here.
One of my parents has blue eye's, and the other has dark brown and I have light green eye's. I guess its not inpossible.

Marina M, 6 months ago

Well, My mother had green eyes and all 4 including me and my sisters all have green eyes. Our father's eyes are brown. What are the chances of that??

Theresa D, 6 months ago

How is this possible?My son has blue eyes my daughter green i have brown eyes so do both of my parents were mexican.my wife has blue eyes and her mom has blue eyes and her dad green.How is this possible?

Nick, 6 months ago

i have blue eyes, my husband has brown. our daughter (yes, i'm sure she's his!) has green eyes, which this article says is impossible!

a, 6 months ago

This chart seems a little bit indefinite, however I've been to this website with a more accurate "eye color prediction". It asks for your parents eye color, your spouse's parents eye color, your eye color, and your spouse's eye color. Then it calculates for the possible color of your child's eyes. (note: they ask for the your parents & spouse's parents eye color for a better background of the child's genotype). I hope it helps:
http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

๑۩۞۩๑, 6 months ago

This chart is wrong. My father has blue eyes and my mother has brown eyes. I have green eyes. This chart needs to be fixed.

T, 5 months ago

your purported fatherhas blue eyes

Chris, 5 months ago

"Wow, I guess someone skipped a lot of classes. Genetics and heredity are actually quite well understood, if poorly explained here. You might also want to look into a little thing called the human genome project.

And all eye colors aren't pretty either."
Just so you know Paul, I have a degree in Physical Anthropology and I have had plenty of genetics classes. Actually, Genetics were a big part of my major and I did go to class. You should probably do a little research yourself and make look at the research done by the human genome project were they state they are "starting to figure out human genetics"

Jen, 5 months ago

My dad has strawberry blonde hair with blue eyes and my mom has dark brown hair with blue eyes. My sister and I both came out with very green eyes and a splotch of brown in my right eye, and splotch of brown in her left eye. And she is 9 years older than me. I guess we would both be considered in that very rare to no chance of happening eye color situation.

Shawna, 5 months ago

my ex had brown eyes + his mum has green, dad blue..
?
so he has a zero percent chance of having brown eyes?
does anyone know where i can do this in more detail 'cause a link off here says he cant have brown eyes?
+ he looks like his dad so i doubt there's been any funny business !

tal, 5 months ago

I have a question for you genetics experts out there. My mother has olive skin, dark hair and bright green eyes. My Dad is pale with almost white blonde hair and one blue eye and one brown My perants had 8 children, all a wild array of colours including me and my twin sister. We are identical in every why with very pale skin and long black hair and with sunglasses on even my perants and siblings have difficulty telling us apart but without the sunglasses on my sister has bright green eyes like my mother and I have one grey eye and one bright green one. I wear contacts to cover it up as very embarrasing. Whats the deal with that?

Lanna, 5 months ago

I think this chart is true. Both of my parents have green eyes and my sister and I also have green eyes.

Chanel, 5 months ago

I don't really agree with this chart. It says someone with blue eyes and brown eyes has a 0% chance of having a green-eyed baby. My mom has brown eyes and my dad has blue, and my eyes are green as can be.

Kristen, 5 months ago

this chart is accurate. if a man and wife both have blue eyes, and, she has a baby with brown eyes... he needs to get an attorney.

mark, 5 months ago

Wow, I beat the odds on this one. My parents both have brown and I ended up with VERY blue eyes!

Kris, 5 months ago

This chart is completely farce...I have Grey eyes as my husband has brown eyes...our son has green eyes...explain that?

Toni, 5 months ago

Both my parents have brown eyes. My mom's eyes re dark brown and my dad who's father was mulatto (dad white, mother African American) has light brown eyes. I have green eyes. Out of 6 siblings, I am the only one who is light skinned and has green eyes. sort of made me stand out in the family line up. I've married a man who is African American, mother mulatto, German-African American, and he has blue-grey eyes. Needless to say, my three daughters have the most mixed up and brilliant blue grey green eyes you ever saw.

Janice, 5 months ago

Both my husband and i have brown eyes but on my side there are blue eyes i cant comment on my husbands side . we have a 7 month old baby boy and his eyes seem to change colour depending on what he is wearing from grey,blue,brown and green. i asked the doctor what colour his eyes were and she said grey brown.

nicola, 5 months ago

My dad has dark brown eyes and my mom has almost black eyes. My left eye is hazel, more of a green color, and my right eye is brown?!?

Natasha, 5 months ago

all four of my grandparents have blue eyes and both of my parents have blue eyes also me and my brother have blue eyes too BUT 3 out of the 4 grandparents of my PARTNER has BROWN eyes and his mother and father both posess brown eyes too , they are both very dark in skin. What color eyes do you think my baby will have?

Lori S, 5 months ago

Is there at all a likelyhood of their being what is called a mutation that would somehow give the child brown eyes if both parents are predominantly blue eyed?
My mother has green eyes my father had blue I came out being bluish/grey eyed...
Is it possible that gene's can pass from an earlier generation on to the existing generation? i.e. genetic traits of grandparents end up in grand/greatgrandchildren?

Chris, C, 4 months ago

I have brown black eyes .My husband has very light shade of green eyes .We are from india.I am pregnant with a baby girl.What will be theb eye color of my baby?

Meenakshi, 4 months ago

I have dark brown eyes and husband has blue, blue eyes.... both our children have green eyes so the 0% for that has an exception.

Cari, 4 months ago

Me i have dark brown eyes. . and my husband has hazel brown eyes and dark brown hair. . we have a 2 yr old that has dark brown eyes and dark brown hair aswell.
We recently had another child, but this time she had blue eyes and blonde hair. now how do you explain that?!? but my side of the family (girls only) have blue eyes. . but it skipped me lol

Sabrina, 4 months ago

What are the chances of a blue eyed and green eyed parent having a brown eyed child?

Teresa, 4 months ago

I just happened to read the last few comments. I tutor AP high school biology and genetics.
The chart is accurate with a few exceptions. Eye color inheritance is a little more complicated than what is shown.
Also this chart shows probable out come which can be very different from the actual outcome. All though statistically rare, two brown eyed parents can have four children in a row with blue eyes.
A brown eyed person and a blue eyed person CAN have a green, gray or hazel eyed child.
All that one can say for sure, is that a child can't have a darker eye color than the darker eyed parent. Two blue eyed or green eyed biologic parents cant have a child with brown eyes.

dennis, 4 months ago

Two brown eyed parents have a 25% chance of having a recessive eye colored child if and only if and only if they EACH have a parent with a recessive eye color.
two blue eyed parents carry only the recessive iris color so they cannot produce a dominant color.

katie, 4 months ago

THIS IS A FACT - A COUPLE WITH BOTH BLUE EYES CANT HAVE BROWN EYE KIDS.

If this happen in your family or with someone you know you better do a DNA test, cause thats the truth. People with blue eyes only can give the blue eye gene..

BLUE EYE GENE + BLUE EYE GENE = BLUE EYES

Otherwise...

GREEN EYE GENE + BLUE EYE GENE = BROWN/BLUE/GREEN

How come?

The fact of at least 1 person got green can give brown eye kids cause people with green eyes have in them the BROWN/BLUE/GREEN gene...acording to these facts:

THE BROWN ALWAYS WIN OVER GREEN AND BLUE.
THE GREEN ALWAYS WIN OVER BLUE AND LOSE OVER BROWN.
BLUE ALWAYS LOSE WITH GREEN AND BROWN.

If this green eye person gives these diferents genes happens diferent things:

Green eye person + Blue eye person (only can give blue genes) =

BROWN + BLUE = BROWN
GREEN + BLUE = GREEN
BLUE + BLUE = BLUE

So if like someone said upthere that his grandparesnt have blue eyes and they gave 4 brown eyes kids..thats bulsh+t, or at least 1 of them has green, not blue, or someone gots cheated 4 times.

Thats the truth!!!

jo, 4 months ago

No, it isn't. Despite your liberal use of capitals and exclamation points, the truth is that two blue-eyed parents can indeed produce a brown-eyed child, although these incidences are quite rare.

Aaron Poehler, 3 months ago

honestly, most ppl, are trying to be a bit brighter than they actually are....and subsequantlly, divulging private info... like their mommas cheating.....
Jo.... very smart this is true, & virtually, the only intelligable response that caught my eye....
PLUS... for the more particular ppl...their are other sites, u can plug in mom&dad, bro&sis, to give a more realistic answer; genotype/phenotype...
good luck'all
-H

sarah, 3 months ago

I cannot wait to see my babies eye color. My husbands eyes are brown (he is Asian) and my eyes are naturally green (caucasian, blond hair). I think this child will be extremely beautiful.

Aturmera, 3 months ago

Hi everyone!
I'm new here (just found this spot) and unfortunately, I haven't the time to read all these posts (I hope to later), I have to rush off. I would like to know where the heck my eye color comes from. They are gold/yellow. If the sun doesn't come out for a while they will turn slightly more green. But they are quite literally "cat eyes". I know, because I held my cat's eyes up to mine and there was little difference. I suspect maybe there is something other that caucasian in my family, but I have no other traits of say, Native American or Black. I am fair skinned, dark blonde with a hint of redhead about me, and I can NOT figure this out. The closest I've come was I once read somewhere that golden/green eyes were of Germanic origin. Can't seem to verify that. Can anyone help???
I will come back to read everyone's posts as soon as I can, and thanks in advance for any information you can provide!!!

Anastasia, 3 months ago

Sorry Jo, but a couple with blue eyes can in fact have brown eyed children. While this is very rare, I have a cousin with brown eyes and both his parents (and grandparents on both sides and three siblings) have blue eyes. (And no, there was no cheating involved). Eye color is a result of four different alleles usually identified with the letters B and G. If a parent passes on a dominant B, the child automatically has brown eyes (the shade of brown depending on the other three alleles). The G allele codes for green or hazel eyes. However, in very rare instances, two parents with blue eyes can have a child with brown eyes if they both have the genotype bbGg. (This is confusing because G is supposed to mean green over blue, but sometimes there is a shift to the lighter side so the parents have bluer eyes than their genetic makeup says). If both big Gs are passed onto the child, his/her genotype would be bbGG. Under some circumstances, the presence of two G alleles will give brown eyes, and not dark green. Although this is very confusing and probably hard to understand, there is genetic proof of this and it is not a case of mistaken fatherhood.

... plus, did you know that eye color can also depend on your environment?

For a better idea of what color eyes your children will have, I highly recommend this site: http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html ...it's really neat.

Caitlin, 3 months ago

my ant has brown eyes and so does my uncle and everyone in the family has brown but my couins has blue eyes. XX brat brat XX

lucy, 3 months ago

Well i myself and bright blue eyes, as does my dad my mums eyes and grandparents eyes are also blue but not as bright blue as mines and my dads or my 2 siblings all our eyes are identicial 2 my dads. However my partner has brown eyes his father brown eyes his mother blue eyes! Our daughter has bright blue eyes and looks identicial to myself..not much like her father..there was absoult no funny business involed thats just how it is...the eye chart says 50/50 and cant wait 2 see if our next child has brown eyes and looks like my partner..or another me! Either way i think its all about dominent genes & chance...

Sarah, 2 months ago

I have a baby girl age 14 months. At birth, she had bluish/green eyes. At this point in time, I have no clue what color they are. I am continuously having people compliment my baby's eyes. Each person believes her eyes are rare, but beautiful. Some say they are blue and silver. Her father's eyes are green, mine are brown. However, although I am hispanic, several members of my family have hazel and blue eyes. Genetics of the eyes are a wonderful thing.

Mari, 2 months ago

I think that there is a common factor in this eye survey that people aren't addressing. Well, somebody above posted something about the "mailman delivering more then mail". The important factor is the denile of cheating women, that totally throws this entire survey and percentages into the trash. Have you ever seen "the Maury show"? Yeah, i figure that about 80% of the women on that show don't even know who they laid down with.
Paternity tests are god sent, to help men that chose to make a bad desician. Paternity tests catch dirty girls.
I am reading these posts because my friend just had a child with bright blue eyes. Well, him and his [now wife] have dark brown eyes. So, go figure... The law in USA is that if a man has provided for a child before he finds out that the child isnt his, the [rent a dad] is required to pay child support for a child that was never even his [until the child turns 18].
I had a friend when i was younger who had blue eyes and blonde hair, while her sisters had brown hair and brown eyes. Well my friend found that she actually had a different dad then her siblings when she was about 16 years old.
These percentages above about eye color are totally off, because the members in the study- were not controlled. The members were never put on a lie detector test to show if they had cheated. Alot of women, after making a serious mistake of cheating- go into self denile- as if it never happened. Anyway... enough of this. My friend should take his baby down and have a paternity test. I cant break the news to him... but all he talks about is how he cannot stand this woman- who has 2 previous kids... he married because of the child- with blue eys.

elfmans, 2 months ago

I have brown eyes and dark brown hair, my husband has medium brown hair and hazle eyes, our son was born with medium brown hair and very blue eyes. Both of my parents have brown eyes. My husbands uncle has blue eyes and his mom has brown so whats the odds we have another child with the same blue eyes?

quna, 2 months ago

i was wondering if i could figure out what color my daughters eyes are going to be?..right now they are greyish sometimes they look blue or green and she is a little over 3 months.

my eyes are brown
the babys fathers eyes are blueishgreen

my mothers eyes are brown and my fathers eyes are hazelish green

the babys fathers mother has light brown and his father had the same eye color as him

can you figure out what color her eyes will be? i have also been told that my great grand father on my mothers side had grey eyes

amanda, 2 months ago

Response to Jo. Both My granmother's and grandfather's eyes are blue and they have 7 childern but only 2 of them have blue and green eyes all others and so my mother have brown eyes.How that can happen.It is really hard to believe this chart.

EdaTr, 2 months ago

My mom always told me that 2 people with brown eyes can have a blue eyed child, but 2 people with blue eyes could not have a brown eyed child. Now, my aunt and uncle both had brown eyes and their first 2 daughters had brown eyes, then they had a son that was as blue eyed as could be. And i know he belongs to my uncle because he looks exactly like him. The explanation is, my uncles father had the most beautiful blue eyes and so the son's eyes are exactly like the grandfathers. Now as for the 2 blue eyed people having a brown eyed child, well i think this would be much harder and more rare. Im not saying it is not possible, but the chances are very unlikely. I have known some people that were both blue eyed and had a brown eyed child, only to find out later that the father was someone else. So yes, i can see where the charts are just at the mercy of everyone being studied telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Just for measure i have brown eyes and my husband has green, and all three of our children are brown eyed.

Shelly, 2 months ago

Okay, check this out! And no jokes please, I am VERY sure that all of my children are biologically mine.

My wife's maternal grandfather had blue eyes, and her paternal grandmother had green eyes. Both of my wife's parents, however, have brown eyes, as does my wife.

My father has blue eyes and my mother has brown, and I have brown as well.

My wife and I have 3 children. Our oldest, a girl, has green eyes. Our second, our son, has blue eyes, the exact color of my dad's. And our youngest, another girl, has green-hazel eyes, more green than hazel.

What are the odds of that? Two brown eyed parents have 3 light eyed children!

Jeff, 2 months ago

I have green eyes and my husband has brown eyes, we have a child who has the most beautiful blue eyes. In fact, all of my mothers grandchildren have blue eyes, her daughters have her green eyes and my brother has blue..

Nicole, 2 months ago

I have brown eyes my exhusband has blue our son has hazel eyes, more on the green side so that chart isn't all that accurate.

Norma, 2 months ago

It is actually possible to have a brown eyed child from two blue eyed parents because the mutations can VERY RARELY both transfer over to the same gene (in the prosses of the forming of the child and all the criss-crossing the genes do) leaving one gene with two mutations- BLUE and one with no mutations- BROWN. The other thing is my mom has blue eyes. My dad has brown and his parents had brown and blue too. I have green eyes but the only history of green eyes in my family is on my mom's side and if she has blue eyes that means that that is the only gene she could have given me which means I could only have blue or brown and now I'm super confused. The other thing is that my eyes are blue, green, gray, and very slightly gold. I find it very frustrating that while they are mostly green there really isn't a specific color. They aren't hazel because the base color is blue-green and they aren't opaque. They are very glassy and pool- like. If anyone knows the color let me know.

Kate, 2 months ago

Who gve a damn about all this silly chart nonsense scientist need to come up with a way to change people eyecolor n no lamo contacts aint working or nor fooling anybody nah nva mine then everybody could have my green eyes hah to all u people wit ya corny brown eyes espically black eyes I feel for ya the most yah dnt knw wht ya missin I can walk anywhere and be the center of attention simpliy because of my eyes hi HATER

datgurlwitdabigbooty, 2 months ago

I am African-American and I have hazel eyes...both my parents have dark, dark brown eyes. And so do my grandparents...and I know that we're all related and my dad's my dad, because I look like him. I had a baby with my husband who is Caucasian and has multi-chromatic eyes--closest guess on his would be really bright ultramarine and our son has piercing, pale mint green eyes with yellow flecks...you never know.

Nicki, about 1 month ago

Our daughter is expecting her first child. She has brown eyes and her husband has brown eyes. In both sets of grandparents the grandfathers have very blue eyes and the grandmothers have very dark brown eyes. What are the odds in this baby inheriting either color or another color?? I think the baby eye color 50/50 brown or blue...give comments...has anyone experienced these?

Bianca, about 1 month ago

You guys must have never taken a trip down to New Orleans and observed very dark black people with blue eyes (not contacts). I have even met fraternal boy/girl twins (children) with chocolate skin and piercing blue eyes. Very odd to see generally, but not uncommon in New Orleans.

Erika, about 1 month ago

As far as I understood from high school genetics...
It worked on a percentage and you needed to factor in the grandparents along with the parents.
The grandparents would predict what genes the parent is carrying... so even though I have brown eyes, my mother has blue (her parent brown and blue) and my dad has green (my dad parents are green and brown - this brown passed on to me) hence my brown eyes.

As far as I understand genetically I have a 50% chance of giving a brown gene as it is dominant to my child and a 25% green and 25% blue...
So as far as I understand this chart can not be right as it doesn't factor in the recessive genes... so my husband has green eyes but he carries 75% chance of green and 25% blue... using his parents and grandparent as references.

Now factor in the percentages or rangers we could throw out in our chromosomes which go to the baby... and you will get a more acurate %.
This will explain why in Africa we very rarely but occationally do find african people born with blue eyes. (A caucasian granparent or great grand parent suddenly gets a throw back gene and you get a very dark skin with a dark blue eye - which is very attractive.)
This chart is too simplified as far as I can see. It only works on pure eye colour... as in you have parents who have the same eye colour...

Kelly, about 1 month ago

I have brown eys and my ex wife has green but my son has bright blue? The rest of my 2 kids have brown?

jacob thompson, about 1 month ago

Well, My mom has brown eyes, my dad has brown eyes. My sister and I both have green eyes. My daughter has blue eyes (my wife has brown,but her dad has blue), so I wonder what are color our next kid will have??

clint, about 1 month ago

Blue eyed people ONLY carry the blue eyed gene. So the ONLY color eyes that their kids can have are BLUE.

rachel, about 1 month ago

The chart is not very good. It's is missing more genetic links as variable. According to what I remember for the eyes color it is more factor the grandparents and greatgrandparents genes.

Arianna, about 1 month ago

This is completely inaccurate.
The fun facts state that the continent of Asia and South America 'has no green eyed people'. When in reality, the middle east including India has the largest amount of green eyed people than any other region in teh world? Like 3-5 percent of indians have eye colours other then brown, usually green, sometimes blue, that' slike 40-50million people?
I think the percentage in Pakistan and Afghanistan is even higher.
Green eyes are also common amongst Scottish people.

Susanne Shepherd, 27 days ago

two people with blue eyes can only have a child with blue eyes! simple as that, as for couples with mixed eye colours it's slightly more complicated it's all about dominant and recessive genes, i can't explain it in words i'd have to draw it down but definatly 2 people with blue eyes can ONLY have a blue eyed child!

Gemma, 19 days ago

The article states that less than 2% of the Global population has Green eyes. This makes me wonder if Hazel eyes are actually in the category of Brown eyes? Hazel eyes see, common here in the U.S.(appearing as a golden or rust color mixed with greens, browns and blues) and do not have that rare leaf-green appearance of 'true' Green eyes.

Susan, 17 days ago

Wov! How can we debate in so much detail over a God given thing. The article was just a guideline. It is the same thing with our length, face, body features, etc. If we were given a full prove chart, then I guess we could decide what our children will look like...

Jason, 13 days ago

Paternity test Alexis!!!

Summer, 9 days ago

If you don`t understand the chart you should take a biology class on genetics and figure it out! It makes sense to me. Or get a paternity test to see if your father is who your mother says.

Maria, 7 days ago

My mother-in-law has brown eyes and my father-in-law has blue eyes. They have 3 kids and the oldest has blue eyes and the 2 youngest have green eyes...... and the chart says that they would have a 0% chance of having green eyes?

veronica, 7 days ago