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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Michelle
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Simon
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Aleksandra
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

angie
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

krystina
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

sylvia
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

I'M A MIRACLE

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

Danielle
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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..
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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

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about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

your purported fatherhas blue eyes

Chris
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Chanel
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Kris
about 1 year ago

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

Toni
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago

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

Teresa
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
about 1 year 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
12 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
11 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months ago

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

rachel
10 months 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
10 months 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
9 months 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
9 months 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
9 months 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
9 months ago

Paternity test Alexis!!!

Summer
9 months 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
9 months 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
9 months ago

My mother had blue/hazel, my father had blue, I have blue/green. My son has hazel/green, his father had green and his father had blue and mother had hazel. Eye colour is a beauty to behold.

Jo
8 months ago

my father has brown eyes.. and my mum green.. they were blue when she was young. us 3 kids have green eyes, blue eyes and deep brown eyes.. strange.. jus been reading all the other comments.. not sure if i understand or believe trhe table now.. and considering my husband orginates from pakistan and im white british i guess its just a matter of time..

leah
8 months ago

I personally think that this table makes no sense because it doesn't all lie in what you can physically see. It cannot be figured out by percentage because of the hidden alleles we may or may not inherit. Brown is also dominant over blue. If one parent has blue eyes and another brown, and the parent with brown eyes has no hidden alleles the childs eye colour would 100% be brown.

Katie
8 months ago

How do hazel, gray, amber, even violet and red eyes fit into here?
My mom and dad have brown and hazel eyes, respectively. 2 of my brothers and myself have brown eyes, and my other brother has hazel eyes. how does this exactly fit into a chart?

Tyler
8 months ago

what about hazel?! none of these eye color predictor charts take hazel into consideration!

emjay
8 months ago

I wish that everyone would stop acting like the chart above is a definate. It is just a guess based on statistics.. If you want to have a better prediction for eye color then do some research on human eye genetics. I do wish that they had some sort of very detailed eye color predictor. This is the best one I have found because it takes into consideration the parents and grandparents traits. But this still does not take grey/gray, hazel, copper, violet, or amber into consideration. And the guy talking about red/pink eyes...that would be from lack of melanin which is genetic but the red/pink coloration is from the reflection of blood and blood vessels in the back of the eye. not eye pigment. Violet also has a slight blood vessel reflection mixed with very light blue colors.

Generator:

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

Some Eye Genetic Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

Ronnie
8 months ago

I have been recently researching the subject of eye color & how it's inheritied. Recent research has shown that eye color is NOT determined by one gene- there are at least three! This makes it possible for parents who have blue eyes to have children with brown eyes.

Julie
8 months ago

I have a question, just reply through a comment if you know.
Okay what if two of your grandparents have blue eyes
Ex:My father's mother and my mother's father?
And the other two have brown eyes.
My mother's father has blue eyes but her mom has dark brown my mom ended up with light brown eyes that turn yellow in the sun.
My father's mother has blue but his dad has dark brown, my dad
has a dark complexion like his dad, dark eyes and dark hair.
But for example, my dad's brother has gray eyes.
And on my mother's side one of my cousins has bright green eyes when both parents have brown eyes.
I have naturally very white skin but dark dark brown eyes.
What are the chances of me having lighter eyed offspring with someone who has light eyes as well?
My wife, has hazel eyes, nutty brown on the inside then it turns green then blue.
What color will the offspring's eyes be?
Predominantly?

James
7 months ago

So I am wondering if someone can help me figure out what color eyes my son will have. I have brown eyes, my mom has brown and my dad has blue. My husband has blue eyes, his mom and dad both have blue. Our son is 3 weeks old, and his eyes are a very dark grayish blue. What color do you think they will turn, and at what age can you tell what they will be?

Megan
7 months ago

My boyfriend and I have a daughter with brown eyes. Yet I have green eyes, and his are a blue-ish hazel colour. So according to this chart it's impossible to have a brown eyed child.... this doesn't make sense

Bree
7 months ago

I have blue/hazzel eyes eyes
Husband has blue/hazel eyes
We both have brown hair
Our kid has amber eyes and blonde hair

art
7 months ago

Julie is right...eye color is NOT determined by one set of genes. Pretending that is makes teaching basic genetics easier. I have green eyes, while both of my parents have blue eyes. Then I noticed that my father's mother has green eyes. The only other person in my family to have green eyes is my cousin's son (not from the same side as green eyed grandmother), and he is the result of a blue eyed white mother and a brown eyed black father. And, finally, the article uses David Bowie as an example of someone with different eye colors...um, his eyes are actually the same color, but one iris is paralyzed due to a boyhood fight over a girl, and on that eyes you can only see the rim of the iris (which is frequently a different shade than the inner iris)

Erika
7 months ago

I have somtimes blue sometimes green eyes my wife has brown and so far we have 5 kids 4 with blue eyes and 1 heterochromia with a blue and green your chart doz'nt seem to be true.what are the odds? or are my kids just blessed?

matthew
7 months ago

This chart is WRONG! Not a guess it is just down right WRONG.

My mum has Very BROWN eyes and my dad has BLUE eyes and my eyes a GREEN and your chart says there is a %0 chance of that happening and it did.

Nicole
7 months ago

WEll I have blue eyes and my son is 3 and has pretty green eyes and the father has brown.So this is totally confusing for me...

Diane
7 months ago

Uh yeah thats soo not true my dad has blue eyes and my mom has hazel and I have eye color change of every secoud my eyes color changes from blue to green to yellow to hazel to brown to onyx to purple explain that hmm?

Dorothy
7 months ago

I don't think the chart is right either. I have brown eyes. My children's father had green eyes. My son has green eyes and my twin girls have blue eyes. So I guess the part of the chart that said that 2 parents with green and brown eyes will most likely have a child with brown eyes. I don't have a child with brown eyes at all.

Cathy
7 months ago

Its okay for guestimating but according to this chart i shouldnt have had green eyes either.. lol

Cathy
7 months ago

I should add that while i have green eyes, my husband has blue ... so far both our kids have blue eyes tho my sons eyes seem to be darkening to a bluey-green. So the chart might be right for us (it said 50% chance blue eyes and 50% chance green eyes) Our daughter has blue eyes like her daddy. by the way im a different cathy then the one in message 129.. im the cathy from message 130

Cathy
7 months ago

It is a fact that parents both with blue eyes can only have babies with blue eyes. If not, there is a BIG problem. Get DNA tested

sar
7 months ago

I have been wondering if my Father is my biological dad and here's why. My mother has blue eyes, my father also has blue eyes. i have a sister and a brother both with blue eyes. my other brother ( who has a different father) has brown eyes. Then there is me- Brown eyes. By the laws of genetics, he cant be my father. what do you guys think?

Staci
7 months ago

Don't be ridiculous. It is not as simple as it seems at first. There are genetic mutations and other possible complications that can cause these supposed "laws" to go wrong.

The Truth
7 months ago

there is no EXACT certainty in eye color. It has been debated for centuries. The only fact is that BROWN eyes are dominant over lighter colors. That DOES NOT mean that all your kids will have BROWN eyes even though it appears they would.

B-Rock1
7 months ago

Okay, my father has what he calls hazel eyes(baby blue to olive green; depends on attire) and my mother has b-r-o-w-n eyes. I have green eyes with a warm brownish ring around the pupil for about a third of my eye, how is this? Your chart says that if one parent has blue and the other brown, the child will have one or the other, so how'd I get green?

amber
6 months ago

what is the probability of having lilac colored eyes?

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Lillie Lindsay
6 months ago

I have a nephew with hazel eyes with a pinch of green in them and my older sister and her husband both have brown eyes. How did that happened?

christy
6 months ago

My dad had gray eyes and my mom brown...I call my eye color hazel,,however my right eye is brown around the pupil,,radiates to green,,then a patch of gray in lower right corner and blue around the edge...left eye is more a brown and green mix with some gray--always confuses people when they try to determine my eye color....with that I have 3 daughters...their mother has brown eyes---two of the girls have brown eyes,,and one has green

dave
6 months ago

if i have brown eyes and she has brown eyes both my parents have brown eyes her mom has brown eyes and her father has blue eyes. i'm curious because my son's eyes are blue and its really bothering me from deep within. Thank you

chris
6 months ago

I got a kick out of your eye color chart. My husband has blue eyes and mine are brown. Your chart says we have a 50 % chance of having a child with brown eyes or blue eyes but No chance of having a child with green eyes. Surprise! We are parents of two young women who both have green eyes. Now I am really curious what color eyes my grand children will have.

Colleen
6 months ago

My parents have both brown eyes and so do I, my husband and both of his parents have blue eyes...can someone tell me what will be my baby's eye color?... from my side 100 % brown his side 100% blue.... I can't wair to see the baby...

Kelly
6 months ago

I have a question,
What if all blue eyes run on one side of the family and on the other, all brown?
What color eyes will the baby be most likely to have?

Kayla
6 months ago

Anyone who watches Jon and Kate plus 8 knows this chart isn't very accurate. Both parents have blue eyes yet all 8 of thier kids have brown eyes.

Josey
6 months ago

You just need to eat Blue berries alot when you are pregnant to get blue eyes, if you want your baby to have green eyes just eat a lot of green tomatos, or green mango, or any other green fruit,
If you just want your baby to have brown eyes, so follow the chinesse and eat a lot of of brown rice
WARNING do not eat to much pinapple and Guanavana you won't like your baby to have yellow or white eyes.
Please keep this secret with you some people will tink you are really insane.

Night Red Writer
6 months ago

my father had brown eyes and my mother has blue eyes ...on the chart it says 0% chance of the child having green eyes ...but i have green eyes so that makes no sence at all

chuck
6 months ago

My husband and I both have light brown eyes. My mother has brown eyes, my father has hazel. My husbands mother has light blue and his father has brown, our son has blue/hazel (blue with brown arround the pupil)

Snoopy&Charlie
6 months ago

Both of my parents have brown eyes and my eyes are as blue as the ocean

Sheila
5 months ago

Yes, I believe it's true that brown eyes are slowly becoming a rarity on Caucasians, at least in the United States. I base this on lots of observation in my midwest population. Maybe it doesn't follow the laws of dominance, but I think it's more of a probability thing. (I have brown eyes, my husband has blue eyes and our daughter has blue eyes. My mom has blue eyes, my father brown, and out of three kids I'm the only one with brown eyes.) Also, it seems that most mixed-race kids end up with lighter colored eyes as a result.

Paula
5 months ago

My husband and I both have green eyes, our son has brown eyes, and my husband's parents have amber-brown eyes and blue eyes. Either this chart is way off, or we've all picked up the wrong babies at the hospital.

Siobhan
5 months ago

This chart is only a general idea of how eye colors may turn out. You still have to consider recessive and dominant genes as well as the incomplete dominance of any eye color. for example: two people, one with a genotype of Ee and phenotype of brown eyes. The recessive gene being for green. The other individual may have a Genotype of ee and a phenotype of green eyes, with both recessives for green. In this case, the chances of a brown eyed person and a green eyed person of having green eyed offsprings are high, Because of the recessive green gene of the person with brown eyes. Try Mendel's chart to plug in these genotypes and you'll see what I mean.

freya
5 months ago

I don't understand how this all works but my mother has blue eyes and my father has brown eyes and I ended up with green eyes. According to your chart they had a zero chance of having a baby with green eyes.

Tee
5 months ago

my eyes are brown so does my partner. My relatives have mostly blue and green eyes while my partner's relatives have mostly brown eyes. How many chances do i have to have my babie eyes blue or green?

joni
4 months ago

my mother has hazel eyes and my father has blue, i have hazel like my mother and both my brothers have green. my husband has blue eyes and his mother has hazel brown and his father has brown. what are the chances that my child will have colored eyes(blue or green)?

mariam
4 months ago

For what I've seen in my life experience and read here, I think we can all agree hazel eyes mostly result from one parent with blue eyes and other with brown eyes. My mom's mother had violet-blueish-greyish eyes and her dad, brown eyes. My mom has dark hazel eyes, but they are hazel anyway. My dad's got brown eyes, and I got light hazel eyes, with greyish dark green on the edges and goldish in the middle. I really like the color of my eyes, no matter if they're not the usual green,brown or blue.

danny
4 months ago

Both my B/f and I have brown eyes,but our baby has Blue eys both sets of our parents are browned eyed.Is it possible that my son in not the father?

donna
4 months ago

That is so NOT true!!!!! My partner and his sister both have green eyes and his mum has brown and his dad has blue.... 0% chance ay?????????

Daf
4 months ago

i think the chart is right. my mom had green eyes, my dad blue, and I have green.. same with my husband, his dad had blue and his mom green, and he has green.

brooke
4 months ago

i have green eyes and as far as i know only my great grandmother on my mums eyes had them. My maternal grandparents have blue and brown, my paternal grandparents both had brown. My mum and dad both have brown and i have green? (ps my parents are both definately my biological parents!)

amy
4 months ago

I have dark brown almost black eyes so does most of my family my husband has blue eyes so does all his family some has green our son has my dark brown eyes i was wondering what our next baby eye color will be !

bietsy
4 months ago

Genetics are weird. My granny has Hazel eyes, my mom ended up with brown eyes, and I ended up with brown eyes as well, not surprising since we're all hispanic. I married an asian man and when we had our own baby...it was an 'OMG' moment.

Our baby looked asian, obviously, but he had hazel eyes. So he was confused. He asked where our baby got those eyes from. My grandma....

Ana
4 months ago

Interesting...my mom had blue eyes, my dad brown, and I have green eyes. Not hazel, not a funky shade of blue, but green green eyes. Does this make me special? I wanted to see the likelihood of me having a green eyed baby with a brown eyed man

Not on the internet
4 months ago

Well my mother has Green eyes (her mother had blue eyes, father had brown). My father has Brown eyes like both of his parents... i have a light brown/hazel mix because the other layer of my iris is a shade of green. My brother... on the other hand has bright blue eyes. And yes, he is my full brother... he just got the unlikely genetic makeup.

Danny
3 months ago

comment 77 is right!

I have to say that I've met many tumes people with green/blue/gray eyes when both their parents had BROWN eyes but I've never met the opposite happening! NEVER!
First, I want to make a distinction between light colored eyes, which means definite colors - light or clear blue, clear green, gray and such. I've never seen any such couple produce a brown eyed kid. I believe in that case the alleged father isn't really the dad or the kid is adopted.
But, there are all the green shades that aren't light or completely green or blue. All the amber colors, the green/blue on the outer side and brown inside and such. They might turn the whole thing upside down when one parent has them and the other is blue eyed. Personally, I believe all the green colors are a result of the meeting of blue and brown so to all those worried here - don't be. Actually, there are many here who have one blue eyed, one brown eyed parent and they have green (which proves my claim).
One of two impossible situations seems to me to be a brown eyed kid out of two definitely light eyed parents.
The other is a light eyes kid out of two parent who've had dark eyes for a few generations back (or many geberations - africa, asia, middle east in parts, south america).

Bianca
3 months ago

There's something I forgot to say. For those who say that a couple with blue eyes can't produce anything but blue - that's generally true BUT one has to take into account all the people we've known who have eyes that change colors! We all know people whose eyes seem clear blue and change into green or gray so if one of the blue eyed parents is such, they can definitely have green/blue/gray kid. I knew one girl whose eyes turned from gray to blue to green in minutes - it was amazing! And those weren't contacts because it was way befor the contacts became popular and it happened in front of my eyes..

Bianca
3 months ago

My mother has hazel eyes and my father has dark brown eyes. But i was born with blue eyes now at 17 I have blue grey, brown, green eyes my eyes have every colour but my parents both have brown

Jacinda
3 months ago

my mother and father and grandmothers and grandfathers all have brown eyes everybody even my aunts & uncles and there kids our all brown the only one that has colored is me i have hazel eyes so we what kind ofhave to see whats this i have heard that the place that you our born helps alot I dont know ... ???
we have to see what kind of gene is this ...
but I was the only one that was born in california by the ocean and my mom had lots of fish and sea food ;)

Paris
3 months ago

My husband and I have brown eyes not that dark but close to light brown. Our daughter of only one month old has grayish Blueish eyes. Are they going to stay that color?

Cynthia
3 months ago

Haha, I guess I beat the odds.. my parents both have brown eyes, and I have green. According to this chart, there was only an 18% chance of that happening, and only a 6% chance of blue eyes. I was actually BORN with blue eyes..... but they turned green by the time I was about two.

Lucy
3 months ago

My daughter has brown eyes and I have blue and her father has green. I that is the truth of the matter. Yes her father is definitely her father! She is now an adult and her husband has brown eyes and her one child has brown eyes and her second child now appears to have some kind of blue (she is only six months old). I have read that there are mutated genes that can contribute to exceptions to the general rules! My daughter is supposed to have a zero chance of brown and she does have brown!

Peggy M
3 months ago

My husband and I both have brown eyes. I am of Romanian descent and have dark brown hair, fairly dark skin and medium brown eyes. He is Native American with black hair, light skin and dark brown eyes. We have 2 light haired, medium skinned, blue-eyed children... a first for both of our families! I have no idea who in our families has blue eyes, but I know that at least 2 generations back is mostly brown. I never thought I would see this day... blue-eyed children!

Jessica Lally
3 months ago

this is great i'm very young and curious and i want to know stuff my teachers dont tell me at school and this was very helpful..............::::::))))))))))))

ana
2 months ago

everyone seems to forget that genetics arent based on science but based on genetic strengths and that only come with a persons individual family......

krys
2 months ago

What about me? I have greyish eyes that change colors depending on my surroundings and what I wear. Sometimes they are more greenish with gold flecks. Sometimes people have accused me of having blue eyes. Mostly, though, they are just grey. My husband has blue eyes & we are wondering what color our child's eyes will be. My husband's brother has brown eyes & married a girl with brown eyes, yet both of their kids have blue eyes. Weird.

lana
2 months ago

Both my husband and I have brown eyes. My mother and father have brown eyes. My husband's mother has brown eyes but his father has blue. We have twin girls. One twin has brown eyes and the other twin has blue.

Tamara
2 months ago

Ok, you people are taking this chart way too seriously! It's not actually what will happen for every person and their children. My brother and his wife both have hazel eyes, and their beautiful little girl has blue eyes. My sister-in-laws grandfather has blue eyes which is most likely where their little girl got them from. Don't take everything so serious and literal! Life's too short for that!

Charly
2 months ago

Ok, i have a question, what color would my eyes be classified as if i have green all over, with streaks of gold orange and a blue ring around the outside of my colored part?

Anthony
2 months ago

there's is no hazel eyes up there

sam
2 months ago

Parent A (mother): blue eyes
Parent B: (father): dark brown eyes
Me: green eyes

How did that happen?

Jannelientje
2 months ago

my little girl is a year old, with light blue eyes, but one eye has a light brown streak that starts at the pupil and goes up,,how strange, but beautiful. i have hazel(blueish), my husband has light brown, very pretty, the brown streak is his color brown. will this go away?

tamara conway
about 1 month ago

brown eyed people can have green or blue eyed babies no matter what ethnicity ive seen it happen a lot of times, but it is rare. brown eyes are dominant thats why there's more people with brown eyes than blue or green. i dont think it really matters but its pretty interesting. people want their kids to have blue or green eyes because they're not as common not because brown isnt pretty. oh also most babies are born with blue gray eyes but that doesnt mean they're eyes will be blue.

isis
about 1 month ago

This chart is retarded. blue eyes are recessive genes and brown eyes are dominant. How can 2 brown eyes parents have only a 75% chance of having a brown eyes child and how can a blue eyed and brown eyed parent have a 50/50? Retarded. I may not have majored in college on human biology etc. but I've learned enough to know that this chart is BS.

Christina
about 1 month ago

i know a couple that have both blue eyes, and their kid was born with brown eyes...

eva
about 1 month ago

apparently this chart says that i have a 0% chance of having green eyes bacause my mothers eyes are brown and my dads are blue but i have, my husband has brown eyes and two of our children have blue eyes and only one has brown!

denise
about 1 month ago

this isn't completely accurate. my husband has blue eyes and i have brown eyes. we have four children, 1 with brown eyes, 2 with blue eyes and 1 with green eyes, so just because it isn't listed as right, doesn't mean its impossible to happen.

Rebecca
about 1 month ago

Keep in mind that eye color, much like hair color is polygenic meaning that it is controlled by more than one gene. So thats why colors can be mixed, other wise it would be a clear blue, green, or brown, not shades of each.

Eric
about 1 month ago

First, there shouldn't be a "0%" anywhere on the chart. My great aunt and great uncle who both had blue eyes had two daughters -one with light blue eyes and one with dark brown; almost black. My grandmother has dark brown eyes, my grandfather has light blue. They had two blue-eyed sons, three brown-eyed - and one green-eyed! Hmm...

Anna
about 1 month ago

Also: Jo, two blue-eyed parents can ABSOLUTELY have a brown-eyed child. Because one or more of the blue-eyed parents could have had a brown-eyed parent themselves, so they are carrying a blue-eyed gene and a brown-eyed gene. Look it up.

Anna
about 1 month ago

hello i have dark brown eyes and my husbend hve them blue, my baby was born with grey ayes but they change all the time like on the nights they turn to green and when i go out on the sun they turn grey with brown they always have different colors, green, grey,brigth grey with brown, i wanted to know what is his permanent color???????

nency
about 1 month ago

The eye chart does give accurate possibilities, however, it doesn't take into account recessive/dominant traits which pretty much determines what you eye color will be. Check out this website as well: http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html - It's an eye calculator and you can input the mother's and father's eye colors, as well as the grandparents' eye colors and it also takes into account siblings. This allows recessive/dominant traits to be taken into consideration and it even shows you which traits are recessive and which are dominant, so you have a better understanding of why some eye colors are simply impossible for some babies. A heads up though to those who think they are some miracle/twist of fate eye color baby: You might want to steer clear of this site because you might discover your eye color is impossible with your parents...if you catch my drift on what .

(army)wife
about 1 month ago

this cannot be genetically correct, as my eye colour is green, and my parents have brown and blue eyes - there are also no other individuals with green eyes in my family.

surely blue eyes mixing with brown would make green?

Jade
about 1 month ago

If one parent has blue eyes and one has brown and there is a 50% chance that the child will have brown eyes, 50% that the child will have blue eyes, and 0% chance the child will have green eyes then how did I end up with green eyes when my father had brown and my mother has blue?

Sam
about 1 month ago

The idea that eye color is transmitted via simple single-gene Mendellian inheritance is incorrect and is many decades outdated. Your article suggests that is how it works but that there are exceptions. That is not at all how it works. If your prediction numbers are correct then it is fine to leave them on the web. As for the erroneous genetic pseudoscience you explain with, please either update it or eliminate it. Thanks.

ecz
27 days ago

my mom has brown eyes, my dad has blue eyes. I have green eyes. According to the chart I had 0% on having green eyes. Is that freakie or what?

Emily
27 days ago

I have brown eyes and so does my bf. And our son has greyish blue eyes. So its deff possible for 2 browns to not produce a brown. lol

Kassie
27 days ago

WRONG! i beat the odds
My dad had brown eyes and my mom had blue eyes!
Mine are Amber!!

Alex
20 days ago

i dont understand this chart my husband and i both have brown eyes our parents have brown eyes (but some of our parents siblings have color eyes) well our son was born with blue eyes and they change to a green/honey color, we just had another baby and she came out with green eyes so i had a questions since pretty much all babys are born with blue eyes what color are her eyes going to change to?

adriana
18 days ago

I have a question. My husband has one green eye and one brown eye. I have brown eyes... What is the chance that my children will have the same type of eyes as my husband? I would love to see them with two different colored eyes!

charity
13 days ago

My husband has brown eyes as well as I do, but both of our dads have green eyes. We had a boy who is 2 years old with bright blue eyes. He got the eye lottery!

iris
8 days ago

twins. i have twins, one blue eyes one brown. they are identical..as in same sack. i have brown eyes. my wife has green. my father has blue eyes and her father has blue eyes. my mother has brown eyes her mother has brown eyes.

adam
4 days ago

Eye colour is far less dependent on direct inherited genes, and far more on how many different inherited genes interact with each other. So this chart...take with a grain of salt. :)

Mandi
2 days ago