Do you have a little one on the way? Are you excited to learn what color eyes they will grow to have? Our easy-to-use baby eye color calculator can show you what determines a baby’s eye color.
What Determines a Baby’s Eye Color?
Your children inherit their eye colors from you and your partner. It’s a combination of mom and dad’s eye colors – generally, the color is determined by this mix and whether the genes are dominant or recessive.
Since the inheritance of eye color is polygenic, eye color traits are influenced not only by one gene but by various genes. Simply put, what determines a baby’s eye color includes:
-Parents’ eye colors
-If parents are hom*ozygous or heterozygous dominant for a specific color
-If parents’ eye color genes are dominant or recessive
Understanding Gene Dominance
Every child carries two copies of every gene – one comes from mom, and the other comes from dad. If it’s a hom*ozygous match, that means that both copies from each parent are the same. If heterozygous, it means that each composition differs.
Genes from brown and green eyes are considered dominant, often determining what color eyes your baby will have if you and your partner have these colors. However, there’s still a chance that two blue-eyed parents end up giving birth to a baby with brown eyes! According to research by the University of Delaware, blue eyes are not determined by recessive genetics - eye color is determined by the interaction between a variety of genes. This is what makes baby eye color so unpredictable!
According to World Atlas:
-Between 55% and 79% of people worldwide have brown eyes.
-Between 8% and 10% of people have blue eyes.
-About 2% of people have green eyes.
Check out our simple baby eye color calculator to predict where your baby will fall on the scale!
Eye Color Predictor for Babies
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Baby eye color
BROWN
16% 
GREEN
18.75% 
BLUE
6.25% 
Baby Eye Color Calculator for Grandparents
Congratulations on becoming a grandparent! Watching your child have their own baby is one of the most magical feelings in the world.
It’s time to get excited about the baby’s personality and features! Are you excited to see what they’ll inherit from you? Do you hope they’ll have the same eye color as you? With our easy-to-use baby eye color calculator for grandparents, you can help your kids get ready for their newborn by better predicting what the baby’s eye color might be.
What Determines a Baby’s Eye Color?
Your grandchildren inherit their eye colors from your child and their partner. It’s a combination of mom and dad’s eye colors.
Generally, the color is determined by this mix and whether the genes are dominant or recessive.
Since the inheritance of eye color is polygenic, eye color traits are influenced not only by one gene but by various genes. Simply put, what determines a baby’s eye color includes:
-Parents’ eye colors
-If parents are hom*ozygous or heterozygous dominant for a specific color
-If parents’ eye colors are dominant or recessive
However, since you played a part in the color of your own child’s eyes, it technically has an impact on what eye color the newborn baby may have.
If you can’t determine the exact color of your own eyes, don’t worry! With our baby eye calculator for grandparents, we can help you predict the color of your soon-to-be grandchild as long as you can properly assess the parent’s eye color
