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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.
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012.
Millennials are sometimes called echo boomers, due to them often being the offspring of the baby boomers, the significant increase in birth rates from the early 1980s to mid-1990s, and their generation's large size relative to that of boomers.
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.
Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially known as Zoomers, [1] [2] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. [3]Members of Generation Z, were born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s, with the generation typically being defined as those born from 1995 or 1997 to 2012.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Gen Xers were often called the "Latchkey Generation" because many came home from school to empty houses, needing a key to let themselves in. This was due to rising divorce ...
Other terms, such as the Star Wars Generation, the Oregon Trail Generation [20] and Generation Catalano [21] have been proposed. Doree Shafrir , writing for Slate magazine, chose " Generation Catalano " for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (born 1971), from the 1994–95 teen drama My So-Called Life .
The exact date range of this micro-generation is not specifically defined. Dictionary.com defines "zillennial" as a person born between the early 1990s and late 1990s. [17] Avery Hartmans, writing for Business Insider citing a study on U.S. consumers, defines a zillennial as anyone born between 1990 and 2000.