What's the earliest average age to get white hair?

Question

I'm only 20 and I counted about ten strands of white hair. Should I be concerned?

Answer 1

There is no specific age....it depends on genes and also actually on life experiences...If you've gone through something very tragic you can get white hair very young...even in children

Answer 2

My grandfather went completely white haired at the age of 17.  (The fact the Germans gassed him in WWI might have had something to do with it though).

Answer 3

There is no set age at which people can expect to begin going gray..or white, in your case.. Some get their first grey hairs at 20.

Take a look at Richard Gere...he's had gray hair for quite a while, same with George Clooney and Steve Martin.