What is the most rare eye color?

Answer 1

The rarest eye color is "violet", a shade of blue that is reminiscent of the amethyst gemstone. It results from a strong blue color slightly tinged with light brown.

It is a common mistake to cite "red" or "black" eyes as the rarest. There is no such thing as a "red" eye. There is a color often called maroon, which is a reddish or rusty brown and technically falls under the category of "brown hazel" or "hazel-brown".

People with albinism sometimes have TRANSPARENT eyes which allow others to see deeply into the eyeball--but this is NOT red. The red that reflects out is an optical illusion. Usually people with albinism have light blue or silver (very light grey) eyes.

Black as an eye color does not exist per se, and this eye color is assigned to the darkest BROWN eye. I have a younger sister whose eye color is "black", though in the sun, one can see it is a deep, dark brown.

The next rarest color is amber, which is the color of actual amber, or gold, bronze, orange or yellow colored.

Finally, what I think is the fifth rarest color, is pure emerald green. Some people in Western Europe have "pea" green eyes which results from a slight darkening of the bright emerald base.

Because I (the author) have concentric rings of color I have been told I have the rarest in the world: the outer ring of my irides consists of violet, the inner ring consists of amber. This type of two-color 'concentric ring' combination is not rare, but the colors are rare.

Answer 2

The most rare eye color is generally considered to be green. Only about 2% of the world's population has green eyes, making them one of the least common eye colors.

Answer 3

The rarest eye color is actually grey. I have grey eyes and I was always thinking I had blue and then checked peoples ye color it’s either blue or brown.