Many parents wonder what color their baby’s eyes will be. It is very difficult to know, because genetic inheritance is very capricious. But it is possible to know the probabilities that our child has blue, brown or green eyes thanks to tools like the ones we show you below.
Most babies are born with blue eyes (or an undefined gray color) because newborns take time to produce the pigment melanin, the substance responsible for giving the iris its color. It is approximately between six months and a year when they begin to define themselves.
What eye color will the baby have
According to Mendel’s laws, a set of basic rules about genetic transmission from parents to children, eye color is determined by genes, with dark colors being the dominant genes and light colors being the recessive genes.
Eye color is defined by genetic inheritance and the color of the baby’s skin. Light skin, with little melanin, is related to light eyes (blue, gray or green), while skin with a lot of melanin is related to dark eyes (brown or black). But it is not an unshakable rule.
We leave you seven tools, two online calculators, a table and four mobile applications, which will allow you to find out the eye color that the baby will have, or at least the probabilities that they will inherit one or another color.
Online baby eye color calculators
1- Eye Color Calculator – TheTech
The Tech has made this online eye calculator that, although it is in English, is very intuitive and easy to use.
You have to enter this link that will guide you step by step. First of all, click on “Click to Begin” to start the process. Where it says “Your mother” we put our mother’s eye color. In “Your father” the one of our father. In “Mate’s mother”, the mother-in-law’s eye color and in “Mate’s father” the father-in-law’s eye color.
Then, in “You”, we put our eye color and in “Your mate” that of our partner. Then options appear to answer if we have siblings “Siblings” with blue eyes (we answer yes or no) and green (yes or no) and the same questions in the case of our partner.
We press “Calculate” and we will have the result. In the drawings of the eyes we will see the probabilities according to the phenotype and in numbers, in proportions, we will see the probabilities based on the phenotype and genotype, taking into account the data of the parents and siblings.
2- Predict’Eyes
It is very simple and fast to use. You have to enter the Predict’Eyes link to calculate the eye color of your future baby.
You will find six characters that represent your parents, your in-laws, you and your partner and clicking on each character will change the eye color of each one.
Once you have finished, the probabilities that the baby has one or the other eye color will appear below. The limitation is that it comes down to four colors: blue, undefined, brown, and green.
3- Eye color table
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In this table published on the Babies and More Instagram profile, we can find out the probabilities that our children have eyes of one color or another based on our and our partner’s eye color.
It allows to have a result with a simple quick glance, however it is not entirely reliable, since it is limited to the eye color of the parents and does not involve the grandparents. The order of the father and mother is indifferent. In this sense, babies take a genetic load from the father and the mother at 50, and it does not matter who has what color eyes. The odds will be the same.
Apps to predict baby’s eye color
4- Baby Eye Color Predictor
It allows you to enter the data of the parents and grandparents to know the probabilities that the baby has of having a certain eye color (green, hazelnut or blue), as well as other features such as hair color or the shape of the chin.
Available on Play Store
5- Newborn Eye Color
The most remarkable thing compared to other applications of this type is that it includes seven shades of eye color and the results are more accurate if, in addition to that of the parents, the data of the eye color of the grandparents are added.
Available on Play Store
6- Eye Color Calculator
It is in English, but it is easy to use and gives a very easy to interpret result. You just have to choose the eye color of the parents and grandparents between brown, green and blue, and it gives us the probabilities that the baby inherits a certain eye color.
Available free for iOS in the Apple Store
7- How will my baby be and eye color
With this application you can get an idea of what your baby will be like. What color will the eyes be, what color will the hair be, how long will it be, how much will it weigh, and what color will the skin be.
You will have to enter the parents’ data such as height, eye color, hair color, etc … It must be clarified that they are probabilities based on the data that we provide from the parents and shows a possible result of the baby’s traits.
Available for free in the Apple Store
Baby eye color calculator
It also predicts your baby’s eye color based on eye color data from parents and grandparents. In addition, it has a smart choice that self-corrects if the combination is wrong.
Available for free in the Apple Store
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