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Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who created the Strauss–Howe generational theory, coined the term 'millennial' in 1987. [15] [16] because the oldest members of this demographic cohort came of age at around the turn of the third millennium A.D. [17] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) [18] and Millennials Rising ...
From a white paper on their website, "Generational definitions are most useful when they span a set age range and so allow meaningful comparisons across generations. That is why the generations today each span 15 years with Generation Y (Millennials) born from 1980 to 1994; Generation Z from 1995 to 2009 and Generation Alpha from 2010 to 2024."
Have you ever wondered which generation you fit into? Check out this breakdown from the silent generation to Gen Alpha based on birth years.
How Old Are Millennials? Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996, currently making them 28 to 43 years old. They got their name from the 1991 book, “Generations,” by historians Neil Howe ...
Younger generations don’t value marriage very much. Well, that’s true for most of them. Less than 40% of those born in the 1990s have married, far fewer than their older counterparts.
The definition given is "a member of an age group born after Generation X and before the millennial generation (specifically in the late 1970s and early 1980s)". [16] Xennials received additional attention in June 2017 following a viral Facebook post by Mashable.
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012 and is considered the first generation to have largely grown up using the internet, modern technology and social media.