Young Golden Blonde Girl On Rocky Beach

Geographic distribution
Blond hair is most frequently found among the peoples of Northern Europe. The pigmentation of both hair and eyes is lightest around the Baltic Sea and their darkness increases regularly and almost concentrically around this region. Strawberry blond is a much rarer type containing the most amounts of pheomelanin. Blond hair is also found in Southern Europe, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. Due to migration from Europe from the 16th to the 20th centuries, blonds are also found all around the world such as in North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. A 2009 study found that light hair colors were already present in southern Siberia during the Bronze Age.
Generally, blond hair in Europeans is associated with lighter eye color (gray, blue, green, and hazel) and light (sometimes freckled) skin tone. Strong sunlight also lightens hair of any pigmentation, to varying degrees, and causes many blond people to freckle, especially during childhood.
In Central, Western Asia (Middle East) and South Asia, there is also a low frequency of natural blonds found among some ethnic populations. In Afghanistan, blonds are particularly found among the Tajik (10% blond, especially in the Pamir region), Pashtun, and Nuristani people (related to the Kalash) who have a blond hair frequency of one in three. In Pakistan the Kalash tribe mostly have blond hair. Blonde hair color can naturally occur even among other people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Northern Areas of Pakistan and in India which includes Khowar people, Pashtuns, Kashmiris, Shina people, Burusho, and descendants of European colonists (the latter found in Goa, Pondicherry).