Is blonde a rare hair color?

Statistically, because of the recessive nature of the blonde gene, natural blonde hair is indeed considered rare nowadays. For a child to be born with naturally blonde hair it is necessary for both of sides of its family in its grandparents generation to carry the recessive blonde gene. In contrast dark hair is dominant, therefore is most likely to appear in a child even if one of the parents carrys the blonde gene, and that's why statistically most people have dark hair. The dominant gene continues to surface and that is why blonde hair has and is becoming rare. It is unknown how many people carry the blonde gene so it is impossible to definitevely estimate how the trend for fewer natural blondes will ultimatly result. What we do know, scientifically speaking, is that the actual gene itself will not die out, because there is no known disadvantage in carrying the blonde gene.

It is estimated by German experts that blonde hair will become extinct by 2202 as too few people carry the gene for blondes to last beyond the next two centuries, and that the last ever blonde will be born in Finland. The same German researchers suggest that bottle blonde may be to blame for the demise of their natural blonde rivals. They suggest that bottle blondes are more attractive to men who choose them as partners over the true blondes.

The whole idea of this is challenged by professor of dermatology at the University of Edinburgh. He says that it is unlikely blondes would die out completely. "Genes don't die out unless there is a disadvantage of having that gene or by chance. They don't disappear".... "the frequency of blondes may drop, but they won't disappear".