# What is the most common eye color?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-common-eye-color/117042 "2002-07-02T16:12:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-common-eye-color/117042/21 "2002-07-06T15:31:53Z")

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> \*Originally posted by zweisamkeit \*  
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> How unusual or common is it for people to have multi-coloured eyes? My mom has bluey-blue eyes, my dad has brown eyes. I have eyes that go:
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> pupil  
> ring of bright orange, rusty colour  
> the rest is a grey blue (often changes from grey to blue to greeny depending)  
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Sounds like my eyes. They were blue until I was about seven, then I started to develop a dark gold ring around the pupil. My eyes continued to change color slowly until my early teens. I believe my iris color is now grey or light grey-blue, but the gold ring remains and has even flecked out from the center a bit. The blue-ish and yellow-ish colors next to each other often make my eyes appear to be light olive green.

I learned from the same Cecil column that **femtosecond** links to that this yellow-ish color in the eye is actually due to fat, which is yellow. I think it is probably the prettiest fat on my body. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Clueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@Clueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clueless)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-common-eye-color/117042/22 "2002-10-04T02:36:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by cuate \*  
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> A lot of people in America associate “Caucasian” with white-European, or “Anglo”, but broadly - Middle Eastern, North African, and Indo-Iranian people - as well as many Latin Americans are included as Caucasians by anthropologists (except of course for those who reject all ‘racial’ labels).
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> With that in mind, I’d definitely say brown, but as some other posters indicated, hazel, blue, grey, green, or flecked eyes are pretty widely spread in the world, even among the so called ‘dark’ Caucasoids.
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> While brown is usually dominant, I have seen mixed people (white-black and white-Indian) with green eyes. For some reason many Cubans and Brazilians who are mixed have this. Some light African Americans have blue eyes too. \*\*

Just a little nitpick, and I’m not even sure if I’m exactly correct. I read somewhere that the Caucasian group consists white European and that Caucasian is a subgroup of a bigger group called Caucasoid which includes the Middle Eastern, North African, and the Indo-Iranian people you mentioned. Can someone confirm this?

PS. Sorry for bumping a 3 month old topic.

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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-common-eye-color/117042/23 "2002-10-04T19:53:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by zweisamkeit \*  
> \*\*Slight hijack here (apologies):
> 
> How unusual or common is it for people to have multi-coloured eyes? My mom has bluey-blue eyes, my dad has brown eyes. I have eyes that go:
> 
> pupil  
> ring of bright orange, rusty colour  
> the rest is a grey blue (often changes from grey to blue to greeny depending)
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> No one else I know has an inner ring of differing colour, so am I an unusual case? (If anyone has light or stormy grey eyes and wants to trade, lemme know 😉 ). \*\*

My boyfriend has a greenish-brown spotch in one of his otherwise blue eyes.

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