Young Golden Blonde Girl On Rocky Beach

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).
Blonds are also found in Turkey, especially in northern (Caucasus) and western (European) parts of the country, and in parts of northern Iran, especially in the Caspian provinces. In the Levant, Israel (especially among the Ashkenazi), western Syria, northern Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Lebanon have a frequency of blonds as well. Blond hair is also a common sight among Berbers of North Africa, especially in the Rif and Kabyle region and also among Maghreb Arabs of Berber descent. Emigration and invasion from North Africa to Southern Europe (especially Spain and Portugal) added the number of natural blonds in that region. Some Berber Guanche populations, particularly the now extinct aboriginal population of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, were said by 14th-century Spanish explorers to exhibit blond hair and blue eyes. Because of emigration from Canary Islands, a number of blonds are seen in Spain and in Isleño Spanish populations of Cuba, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina and other countries of Latin America.