Wednesday, August 19, 2020

What generation are you in?

This must be an older chart, since I found a younger generation (see below).
There are seven human generations alive right now:
  • Greatest Generation — born between 1901 and 1924
  • Silent Generation (Traditional) — born between 1925 and 1945
  • Baby Boomers — born between 1946 and 1964
  • Generation X — born between 1965 and 1979
  • Millennials (Gen Y) — born between 1980 and 1996
  • Generation Z (Zoomers) — born between 1997 and 2011
  • Generation Alpha (Gen A) — born between 2012 and today
Dates vary, but I found the idea here and edited it slightly, based on my online research.  Names is parentheses are alternates I saw.

The generation that has just died out was called the Lost Generation, born between 1883 and 1900.  My in-laws were born in the 1890s, and I can remember standing at the bedside of my maternal grandmother, looking at a bedside table full of pill bottles that was at my eye level.  She was born December 22, 1880 and died in May 1943, when I was three and she was only 62.  I can't find a name for that generation.

I'm not sure how "silent" I am, but I was born in 1940.  Although I'm in the Silent Generation with one brother and one sister, our "baby" brother born in 1949 is a Boomer.  Yet we are all the same generation of my family.  My three children are all Boomers, too, like their Uncle Jim.  Six of my grandchildren are Millennials, but the seventh was born in 2000, making her Generation Z, along with the first two of my great-grandchildren.  My other four great-grandkids are Generation Alpha.

This can be totally confusing, you know?

1 comment:

Helen's Book Blog said...

I always thought both my parents were boomers (born in '39 and '44), but I guess not. I am Gen X and my daughter is Gen Z