I'd like to add that before the term "Millennial" was invented, Gen-Y were sometimes referred to as echo-boomers. This is because if you look at a graph of birt

I'd like to add that before the term "Millennial" was invented, Gen-Y were sometimes referred to as echo-boomers. This is because if you look at a graph of births/year you see a big spike for the baby boomers, and later you see another smaller but still noticeable spike when they start having kids. Hence, echo-boomers