How common is dark hair among Germans?

[rashka]

The colour of hair of Lena: Dark brown

I think Lena has medium brown hair, not dark brown. This Irish girl has dark brown hair:

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[Aviane]

So? Blond hair isn't "standard" in Italy but there are blond Italians. Your question was whether Germans have dark brown hair - the answer is that many do, but it's not the most common hair color.

Indeed.

In full truth Blonds in Italy are not standard but you can find plenty of them.

For Germany it's Dark Brown haired people that are not the most standard but you can still find plenty of them.

Most Germans I've seen have had light brown hair and brown or blue eyes. Most I've known have been from Hamburg, some place in Baden and Lower Austria.

Most Germans do have something like light brown hair and some medium shades of brown hair.

They can have Brown or Blue eyes plus some Chestnut coloured ones.

[leisitox]

I always pictured germans with medium brown-light brown hair and blue eyes as average pigmentation in them.
That is correct?

[Libertas]

Yes, but the is followed up by "but it's definitely not standard".



No, but I have been to Minnesota and Wisconsin, where everyone is German and everyone is blonde.

That cannot be right unless the origin is mostly North German.

I can't imagine the Palatine Germans and German-Swiss who settled in the USA had more than a minority of blonds.

[Geminus]

It's very hard to argue about the pigmentation of hair, as there are many different opinions about which shades of color for example are still blond or already brown. The transition from dark-brown to black is sometimes hard to see, too.
This perception also varies strongly between different countries. When I was in Greece several students, I was asked if all Germans were blond, so the students were seen as almost exclusively blond.

If you can read a bit of German you can visit this website:
http://www.haar-und-psychologie.de/h...utschland.html

Here the self perception of the hair color of the people asked is as follows:

blond 50,9
brown 42,2
black 4,2
red 2,7

(The blond is in majority dark-blond.)

I myself made a small statistic, where I calculated the average hair color of people I know from pictures etc.:

blond 35,0
brown 56,0
black 7,0
red 2,0

(All the people I counted are from South-Germany)

So all in all there may be a close match between blond and brown hair. In my opinion brown hair is somewhat more prevalent than blond hair. So the average hair-color could be about light-brown.
But as I mentioned before, the perception of what "counts" as blond or brown etc. is very different.

[aherne]

Most Germans have dark brown hair as adults, followed by light brown and blond. Black hair is usually indicative of non-German admixture. Children, however, have light brown hair predominant, followed by blond then dark brown. Overall, Germans seem to me about as blond as Russians: certainly a lot more blonds than here in Romania, but far from a majority.

[Mordid]

Oh shyt, Aherne is back?

[Bakura]

In rural and eastern areas of region, yes.


But this is the average Bavarian.

They could pass as Serbs.

[jerney]

Most Germans have dark brown hair as adults, followed by light brown and blond. Black hair is usually indicative of non-German admixture. Children, however, have light brown hair predominant, followed by blond then dark brown. Overall, Germans seem to me about as blond as Russians: certainly a lot more blonds than here in Romania, but far from a majority.

No and no

[Corvus]

It`s quite common, in particular in the south. But still real dark hair is an exception
just like blondes in Italy or Spain.