# What's The Youngest You've Seen Male Baldness **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571 "2009-01-23T03:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/21 "2009-01-23T10:48:43Z")
By 17, Dad had some serious “entryways.” It’s clearly already starting in his 15yo pics. He liked to say his brow had continued growing after the rest of him stopped: the barber had to shave the back of his neck and about one inch down. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/22 "2009-01-23T12:14:35Z")
I had a roommate that lost his top hair by his 19th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/23 "2009-01-23T12:54:49Z")
I knew two guys who were losing their hair when they entered college, at 18. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/24 "2009-01-23T13:04:01Z")
My brother and my dad both had really long foreheads before they reached 19. I was luckier made it to my mid to late 20s before I started getting thin up top. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/25 "2009-01-23T15:49:49Z")
I went to high school with a couple of twins. They were seniors when I was a freshman, and were both bald by graduation. I know they shaved their heads rather than have what little hair they had left, but you could tell from where it did grow in that they had, at best, a tiny hemispherical strip at about ear level and nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/26 "2009-01-23T16:13:49Z")
My dad’s hair was pretty much gone by 19 or 20. I believe Patrick Stewart had the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/27 "2009-01-23T16:18:09Z")
My boyfriend was grey by 17 and balding by 18. Now he just shaves his head entirely and he looks damn good that way. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/28 "2009-01-23T16:18:55Z")
My wife’s nephew-a really good-looking kid (he looked like a young Brad Pitt). By age 20, he was showing a bald spot. By 23, he has lost most of it. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/29 "2009-01-23T16:24:18Z")
I knew a guy in high school whose forehead just got higher and higher. By the time he was 18, he was pretty dang bald. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/30 "2009-01-23T16:29:21Z")
1. A guy I knew in college was already seriously thinning. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/31 "2009-01-23T16:29:36Z")
I remember that in his junior year of college, my brother ran across the ID from his freshman year. He compared the pictures on the two IDs and went :eek:. He’s 40 now, and pretty darn bald (sorry, bro!), but I don’t remember how fast or slow the process went for him. It definitely started around 19 or 20, though. He was one of those babies that didn’t have any hair until he was about 2, as well. Poor guy only had about 15 decent years of hair. It was pretty while it lasted…blonde and wavy. ---
**Author:** ![Elvis\_Chimney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/50afbb/32.png) [@Elvis\_Chimney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis_Chimney)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/32 "2009-01-23T16:35:06Z")
I started losing my hair at about 15. By 17/18 it was getting really noticeable. Pretty soon it was looking fairly ridiculous, particularly since for some unknown reason I persisted in keeping it long - I looked like a tragic middle-aged rocker at the age of 20. A hit with the ladies I most definitely wasn’t. Fortunately I started shaving it not long afterwards (the only solution IMHO). ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/33 "2009-01-23T17:05:15Z")
I knew a guy in highschool whose hairline was receding so fast you’d think it was afraid of his eyebrows. Seriously, it was like he was losing an inch a year (ETA: though my memory may be exagerating). He had this [Bruce Willis](http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/54/039_15135~Bruce-Willis-Posters.jpg) hairline by 16. ETA: He was also really tall, so there were rumors he was narc like on _21 Jumpstreet_, and just pretending to be a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![PotLuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@PotLuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PotLuck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/34 "2009-01-23T18:19:12Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Yup, I had a high school classmate who developed a noticeable bald spot by the time he was seventeen or so. Ditto, and his baby face coupled with his Friar Tuck hairline made him look like a 6’2" middle-aged toddler. He was a great example of a good personality winning out over movie-star good looks; his charm, smarts and sense of humour ensured he was never short of good friends or romantic attention. ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/35 "2009-01-23T21:38:27Z")
There was a guy I knew in high school who’s hair line started to recede right around freshman year (roughly 13 years old, I think). By senior year, his hair line was about even with the front edges of his ears. I haven’t seen him since, so I have no idea if he is completely bald now, or if the hair has stabilized. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/36 "2009-01-24T00:39:42Z")
16ish, i believe. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/37 "2009-01-24T00:58:56Z")
Just means you have a lot of face to wash. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/38 "2009-01-24T01:15:24Z")
Two of my classmates were balding on top (bad enough that they started buzzing their hair off completely) by the time they were 18. One is diabetic–maybe that had something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/39 "2009-01-24T01:20:10Z")
I knew two guys- best friends, both about 23. One had typical male pattern baldness far advanced to the point of Yinkle, and the other was graying. I guess that’s cheating though, because he just had natural salt and pepper black hair since youth, streaks of white and grey against black. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571/40 "2009-01-25T10:09:23Z")
Isn’t baldness on the X chromosome you get from your mother? Anyway I’ve always had a high hairline. Even when I was 8 years old if I had short hair I looked like I was balding up front. As I got older I became tired of people asking if I was balding, so I let my hair grow longer. Now about going grey? I’ve been getting grey hairs since I was 16. Luclily my hair is naturally light brown and they are hard to see, or it’s dyed and you can’t tell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-youve-seen-male-baldness/482571.md?page=3)