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Gen Y was the placeholder name until they the millennial name stuck. Depending on who you ask the generation starts from 1977 to 1984 and ends from 1994 to 2000

Gen Y was the placeholder name until they the millennial name stuck. Depending on who you ask the generation starts from 1977 to 1984 and ends from 1994 to 2000. We are rapidly approaching the time when we can expect some catchy name to stick for the next cohort. Generations tend to be around 20 years and every one has a big gap between the start and the finish. Just look at baby boomers, do you think someone born in 1946 with a returning GI father and graduating high school right into the start of Vietnam escalation had much in common with someone born in 1964 and not graduating high school until the Reagan administration?

MegaButts 10y ago
If only people would be grouped by decades, ie 90's kids. The problem with this though is it doesn't mean you were born in the 90's, but you grew up on the 90's - but what age is growing up? Regardless, although I understand the ubiquity of terms like millenial, I think there's so much more value in breaking down things into decades. I'd actually say 8 year segments are the most useful because you can use presidents (who often serve 2 full terms) as references, but that's specific for the US and doesn't jive well with a base-10 counting system. I bet out there somewhere someone has come up with a great way to classify generations specific to cultural changes and I just haven't found it yet. Maybe it'll show up in this thread.