Original data · August to October 2026
Oval was the most common face shape, at 49.0% of 2,048,842 analyses. Diamond was the rarest, at 5.4%. The analyses were run on The Face Report's free tools from 1 August to 31 October 2026, all classified by one version of one classifier. They are scans by people who chose to use the tools, counted per analysis, so they describe this sample and not the population.
Oval was the most common shape in every month: 48.1% in August, 48.8% in September, 49.7% in October. Oblong (14.5%) and square (14.3%) were close for second place and swapped order between September and October.
Part of oval's lead comes from the classifier. Oval is the middle profile of the six, so a face that is not clearly long, wide, angular or tapered is nearest to it. A tool with different profiles, or a seventh shape, would report a different share.
Diamond was the rarest shape, at 5.4% of 2,048,842 analyses (110,929), followed by heart at 6.9% (142,197). Both were the two rarest in every month.
This classifier has no triangle or pear shape, which some tools report as their rarest. A face with a jaw wider than its forehead is given whichever of the six profiles is nearest (square, round or oblong in our tests of such proportions), always as a borderline result that names the runner-up. You can check your own face shape with the same classifier.
About 1 analysis in 10 (9.8%) scored 90 or more out of 100 on our symmetry scale, and fewer than 1 in 100 scored 95 or more. The median analysis scored in the 75 to 79 band.
| Symmetry score | Analyses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Below 50 | 268,260 | 13.3% |
| 50 to 59 | 157,349 | 7.8% |
| 60 to 69 | 273,769 | 13.6% |
| 70 to 79 | 467,439 | 23.2% |
| 80 to 89 | 650,936 | 32.3% |
| 90 to 94 | 189,333 | 9.4% |
| 95 to 100 | 8,874 | 0.4% |
The line that "2% have perfect facial symmetry" is repeated widely and traces to no study we could find. This table is not a population figure either, but it is a measured one. On the day we could read row by row (11 November 2026, 27,865 scored analyses), the highest score was 97 and none reached 100. A maximum rises as more faces are scanned, so treat that as one day's observation. Research on healthy adults finds the same thing by other methods: the two halves of a face differ measurably (Ercan et al., 2008).
How the score is computed. A midline is fitted through five points from the forehead to the chin. Each left landmark is mirrored across it and compared with its right partner, and the gap is expressed as a percentage of that feature's distance from the midline. A gap of zero scores 100; a gap of about 3 to 4% scores 88. The overall score weights the jaw 35%, eyes 25%, eyebrows 15%, mouth 15% and nose 10%. The scale was fitted to this tool's own scans in July 2026, so where the bands fall partly reflects that fit. A turned head lowers the score, so some low scores are the photo and not the face. You can test your own facial symmetry on the same scale.
Base: 2,015,960 analyses with a stored symmetry band. It is smaller than the face shape denominator because a count is stored only when a day, tool and band has 10 or more analyses, which mostly drops the top band on small tools. That makes the 95 to 100 row a low estimate: on 11 November 2026 the row-level share was 0.7% (0.5% counting each session's first analysis only). Download the symmetry bands (CSV).
Each tool has its own measurements, its own list of shapes and its own users, so the figures are not measurements of the same thing. None is a random sample of people. The other rows are as each tool's own page stated them on 9 November 2026.
| Dataset | Analyses | Dates | Oval share | Shapes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Face Report (this page) | 2,048,842 | 1 August to 31 October 2026 | 49.0% | 6 |
| OblongFaceShape | 51,247 | not stated | 28.4% | 7 (adds triangle) |
| FaceAura AI | 18,041 | 11 Nov 2025 to 2 Sep 2026 | 38.78% | 7 (adds triangle) |
2026-07-22-symmetry-v3-face-shape-v2. The six shape profiles have not changed since 12 July 2026 and the symmetry scale has not changed since 22 July 2026, so the whole period was classified and scored by one version. The live tools still run this version.| Shape | Height to width | Forehead to cheekbones | Cheekbones to jaw | Jaw angle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oval | 1.24 | 0.88 | 1.26 | 137° |
| Round | 1.13 | 0.88 | 1.2 | 141° |
| Square | 1.16 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 130° |
| Heart | 1.24 | 0.92 | 1.37 | 134° |
| Oblong | 1.34 | 0.88 | 1.24 | 137° |
| Diamond | 1.24 | 0.84 | 1.31 | 134° |
| Shape | All analyses (27,865) | First per session (9,189) |
|---|---|---|
| Oval | 50.7% | 50.3% |
| Oblong | 13.4% | 14.4% |
| Square | 13.5% | 13.7% |
| Round | 10.2% | 9.5% |
| Heart | 7.4% | 7.2% |
| Diamond | 4.9% | 4.8% |
The Face Report (2026). Face shape statistics: 2,048,842 analyses, 1 August to 31 October 2026. https://thefacereport.com/guides/face-shape-statistics
The tables and both CSV files are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: quote or republish them with a credit to The Face Report and a link to this page. Please describe the figures as analyses on The Face Report, 1 August to 31 October 2026, not as a share of people. When the data is refreshed, this address will carry the new period and the file names will change with it.
Oval was the most common face shape, at 49.0% of 2,048,842 analyses run on The Face Report from 1 August to 31 October 2026. Oblong was second at 14.5% and square third at 14.3%. These are results from one tool's users, not a survey of the population, and oval is the middle profile of the six, so a face that is not clearly long, wide, angular or tapered lands on it.
Diamond was the rarest face shape, at 5.4% of 2,048,842 analyses (110,929). Heart was the second rarest at 6.9%. This classifier has six shapes and no triangle or pear shape, which other tools report as their rarest.
In 2,048,842 analyses from 1 August to 31 October 2026: oval 49.0%, oblong 14.5%, square 14.3%, round 9.9%, heart 6.9%, diamond 5.4%. Every share uses the same denominator, and the six add up to 100%.
Square was the third most common shape, at 14.3% of 2,048,842 analyses (291,996). Its share was 14.6% in August and 13.7% in October. Part of that fall is a fix on 18 September 2026 that rejects unreadable scans from some Android phones, which had often been labelled square.
No study supports the often-repeated "2% have perfect facial symmetry" figure. In our data, 9.8% of analyses scored 90 or more out of 100 on our symmetry scale and fewer than 1 in 100 scored 95 or more. On the one day we could read row by row (11 November 2026, 27,865 scored analyses) the highest score was 97 and none reached 100. A maximum rises as more faces are scanned, so read that as one day's observation. Measured asymmetry is the normal result: a statistical shape study of 321 healthy young adults found significant asymmetry between the two halves of the face (Ercan et al., 2008).
No. They are 2,048,842 analyses by people who chose to use The Face Report's free tools, counted per analysis and not per person. One person can scan several times: on 11 November 2026, 27,919 analyses came from 9,191 browser sessions. Counting only each session's first analysis that day moved no shape's share by more than about one percentage point. No age, sex or country is stored with a free analysis, so the page has no split by any of them.
Each tool has its own rule for turning measurements into a label, its own list of shapes and its own users. Oval was 49.0% here, 28.4% in OblongFaceShape's 51,247 analyses and 38.78% in FaceAura AI's 18,041 scans (their figures as published on 9 November 2026). None of the three is a random sample of people. A tool's figures describe how that tool labels the photos it is given.
No. The classifier compares each face with six profiles: oval, round, square, heart, oblong and diamond. A face with a jaw wider than its forehead, which other tools call triangle or pear, is given whichever of the six is nearest. In tests of such proportions that was square, round or oblong, depending on face length, always as a borderline result.
The same classifier and symmetry scale that produced these figures, on your own photo.
Face Shape Detector
FreeWhich of the six shapes your face is nearest to, with the runner-up when it is close.
Facial Symmetry Test
FreeYour symmetry score on the scale used in the table above.
How Face Shape Detection Works
The landmarks, the four ratios, the six profiles and the code.
Oval Face Shape
What makes a face oval, and how it differs from oblong and round.