This is interesting. My husband has hazel eyes. He is Italian on his father’s side and English on his mom’s; but their Italian last name was originally a Spanish name...
There was a song a number of years ago where a man asks a girl with green eyes, “What’s your mamma’s name?” because he thinks she could be his daughter by a former lover. The song refers to eyes that are “Wilson green.” I don’t think Wilson is a Spanish surname.
It may be more common in the Iberian Peninsula, but I'm wondering WHY people with NO genetic connection to those two nations have hazel eyes too, if it's so rare in others who are able to trace their ancestry quite far back.
My eyes were hazel green when I was little-they changed gradually to the color of river water-green with a bit of gray-and have stayed that way. My grandfather had eyes the same color-so do several of my cousins. My brother has hazel brownish eyes, like my mom did. I’m Hispanic- ancestors were Spanish Basques from the Pyrenees...
The hazel eyes in the picture look just like mine. My father had blue eyes, my mother had brown.
My ancestry is largely British Isles. No Iberian ancestry that I know of. Maybe France and Corsica count.
I have hazel eyes. When they are bloodshot they turn violently green. I look like a green-eyed Dracula.