Z

Take that a step further for Millennials and Zs by crafting an e-mail subject header that does the same but with even fewer characters; […]

2017, Martha M. Ellis, Linda Garcia, Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges: New Challenges, New Leaders, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 10:

The current progressive movement—and certainly the Millennials and Zs—understand that the Hyde Amendment is discriminatory […]

2020, Zerlina Maxwell, The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Books, →ISBN:

The current global pandemic is almost certainly a formative moment for younger Millennials and Zs as they navigate through similar challenges.

2022, Morgen Witzel, editor, Post-Pandemic Leadership: Exploring Solutions to a Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN:


MTV generation

But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.

1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346:

Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]

1996, James Robert Walker, Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:

The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.

1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:

Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.

2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:

The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.


Xer

Many Xers sport piercings in their noses or navels.

We Xers have a love-hate relationship with our entertainment media.

1995, Kevin Graham Ford, Jim Denney, Jesus for a New Generation: Putting the Gospel in the Language of Xers:

Ellipsis of Gen-Xer, a member of Generation X.


postmillennial

en-adj

postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)

more postmillennial (comparative)
most postmillennial (superlative)
post-millennial (alternative)

And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

1990, Murray N. Rothbard, Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 123–179:

(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.

“I want to get into the heads of people younger than me, to be postmillennial,” she says. “I look at different Instagram influencers, at the music and the music scene, to try to understand it all.”

2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, quoting Avery Singer, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times:

Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.


postmillennial

postmillennials (plural)
post-millennial (alternative)

2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.


zoomer

→ Russian: зу́мер (zúmer)

Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (“baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s”). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"
However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.

Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; […]

2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times:


Generation Z

Using Z as the letter that follows Y, as in Generation Y.

generation Z (alternative)
Generation Zed (alternative)
Gen Z (alternative)
Gen-Z (alternative)

Generation Z, those born after 1997, also known as the Millennials or the “I” generation, grew up watching the fall of the World Trade Center, the crash of the financial markets, and the intoxicating greed of financial moguls.

2013, Robert E. Gunther, William S. Kane, Leigh Thompson, Martha I. Finney, The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), FT Press, →ISBN:

Sure, millennials were digital; their teenage years were defined by iPods and MySpace. But Generation Z is the first generation to be raised in the era of smartphones. Many do not remember a time before social media.

2015 September 18, Alex Williams, “Move Over, Millennials, Here Comes Generation Z”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Pew Research Center
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The generation of people born between the mid-late 1990s and early 2010s, following Generation Y, typically defined as beginning with births in 1997 and ending with births in 2012.


Generation Z

Generation Zs (plural)
generation Z (alternative)
Generation Zed (alternative)
Gen Z (alternative)
Gen-Z (alternative)

And to our wonderful tribe of Generation Zs and Alphas for whom we are so grateful: Acacia, Jasper, Zari, Brighton and Corban – it is an honour to call you our children.

2021, Mark McCrindle, Generation Alpha: Understanding Our Children and Helping Them Thrive, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

One key reason Generation Zs have suffered the highest job losses is that they are disproportionately represented in industries that have had the most number of layoffs and furloughs and are more likely to be in entry-level jobs and/or serve as hourly workers.

2021, Annabel Beerel, Rethinking Leadership: A Critique of Contemporary Theories, Routledge, →ISBN:

In comparison, Generation Zs are the first generation to grow up with the Internet in their pocket (e.g. cell phones and smartphones) with constant access to the online world, creating a sense of immediacy for information and contact.

2022, Heidi Weigand, Heather Mackinnon, Erica Weigand, Jessica Hepworth, “Intergenerational Stories of Kindness: A Catalyst for Bouncing Back”, in Michelle Thomason, editor, Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies (Kindness at Work), Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:


Gen-Xer

Gen-Xers (plural)
Gen Xer (alternative)
Gen X-er (alternative)
Gen X'er (alternative)

From Gen X, shortened from Generation X + -er.


Silent Generation

Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman.

Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s.

2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:

Like his character, Stiller was Gen X, but he didn’t have Boomer parents; his mother and father were part of the Silent Generation, and more important, they were in showbiz.

2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic:

The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.


Generation Jones

Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).

Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.

The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts.

2011, Tracy D. Connors, The Volunteer Management Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s; they are the younger subset of the baby boomers but are sometimes conceptualized as being sandwiched between the older subset of baby boomers and Gen-Xers.


lost generation

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

The generation that came of age during World War I.


thirteener

thirteeners (plural)
Thirteener (alternative)

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).

affix

oner · twoer · fiver · sixer · Sevener · niner · tenner · elevener · twelver · fourteener · fifteener · sixteener · hundreder · thousander · twenty-five-thousander

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 352:

Raise the tough issues and questions that Thirteeners struggle with in the real world. […] The speaker should be transparent about his or her own life struggles and problems. This creates credibility and helps Thirteeners identify their own problems.

1995, Kevin Graham Ford, with Jim Denney, “How to Reach Us, Part 2: Process Evangelism”, in Jesus for a New Generation: Putting the Gospel in the Language of Xers, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 205:

(dated) A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.


Generation Alpha

en-noun

Generation Alpha (plural Generation Alphas)

Originated from a 2008 survey conducted by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in a 2015 interview:
When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old.
McCrindle Research also took inspiration from the naming of hurricanes, specifically the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in which the names beginning with the letters of the Latin alphabet were exhausted, and the last six storms were named with the Greek letters alpha through zeta.

According to one Coventry student, Denny Julian Deemin, Generation Zs (born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s) will still want their own cars but Generation Alphas (born since 2005) will want a simpler lifestyle without the bother of ownership.

2019, Jon Bentley, Autopia: The Future of Cars, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

Though the increased access to information afforded by technology is causing many Generation Alphas to experience up-ageing, it’s important to remember that they are still children.

2021, Mark McCrindle, Ashley Fell, Sam Buckerfield, Generation Alpha: Understanding Our Children and Helping Them Thrive, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

In the schoolyard, these Generation Zs are role models to Generation Alphas in a way schools haven’t seen before.

2022, Madonna King, L Platers: How to Support Your Teen Daughter on the Road to Adulthood, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:


baby buster

From baby bust + -er, following baby boomer.

Since today’s young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all.

1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:

As was made clear in Section III. A, a baby buster spends more time with his parents, since the burden of taking care of one's parents is shared by fewer siblings.

2001, Erik Lueth, Can inheritances Alleviate the Fiscal Burden of An Aging Population:

The solution of some is to design what are in effect baby buster churches, or at least baby buster church services.

2009, D. A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism, page 45:

In the medium term, 2015-2030, the average baby boomer is of age 60-75 – his parents are no longer living in this period — and the average baby buster is of age 30–45.

The force of media means that popular culture creates the sensibility, rather than offering a 'statement' of the 'authentic baby buster mentalitae ' (2005:19).

Someone born between the baby boom and the baby boomlet; a Gen-Xer.


Gen Xer

Gen Xers have been described by author Douglas Coupland as the first generation raised without religion.

Jason, a thirty-two-year-old computer programmer, and a typical Gen Xer, summed it up beautifully when he talked with me.

2007, Larry D. Rosen, Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation, page 28:

Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.

2010, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, page 121:

Gen Xer's are children of two working parents. And they are children of divorce: more than half of Gen Xer's parents divorced while they were growing up and living at home.

2011, Kelly McDonald, How to Market to People Not Like You:


X Generation

Our Frankie's part of the ... the X Generation ... is what they call it.

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 110:

Conna has Silent Generation parents and is an X Gener, married to a Baby Boomer. She has X Generation siblings, four Y Generation nieces and nephews and a Z Generation daughter.

2010, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page ix:

Duffy argues the need to change course designs to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies because the habits, customs and codes of Millennium and X Generation students differ from those of previous generations.

2012, Melanie Ciussi, Erik Gebers Freitas, Leading Issues in E-learning Research For Researchers, page 47:


X generation

Instant gratification is the curse of the X generation.

2013, Percival Everett, James Kincaid, A History of the African-American People:

The Pontiac Aztec is a now-classic example of a product that attempted to capture the X generation with a car customized to their every need.

2013, Tony Davila, Marc Epstein, Robert Shelton, How to Become Innovative:

I have included information, such as the adoption of electronic means of communication and the need to evangelize the members of the X generation, which I certainly had not foreseen when I last wrote.

2014, Robert W. Prichard, A History of the Episcopal Church, page xv:


Gen X

If the MTV innovation is one hallmark of Gen X, another important attribute is this generation's sense of humor, which is self-conscious, self-deprecating, and filled with irony, but also tends to be somewhat subversive and antiestablishment.

1999, Rob Owen, Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 54:


Gen Z

Gen Zs (plural)
Gen-Z (alternative)
Gen Zed (alternative)

There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.

2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2:

Gen Zs predominantly use social media for constant consumption and entertainment or, as the term is becoming known, ‘infotainment’ (material that is intended to inform and entertain).

2020, Dominic Traynor, Cath Bufton-Green, “Conscious consumers”, in Literacy Beyond the Classroom: Ten Real-World Projects Proven to Raise Attainment in Primary English, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 30:

More than 80 percent of Gen Zs aged eighteen to twenty-one report money as a source of significant stress.

2020, Haydn Shaw, “Gen Z: You Do You”, in Sticking Points: How to Get 5 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart, Tyndale Momentum, →ISBN, page 136:


Gen Alpha

But she does not think the online trend madness will slow down anytime soon. Enter Gen Alpha, whose eyes are already racing across screens.

2025 March 7, Callie Holtermann, “Gen Z Is Tired of Chasing the Trend Cycle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Tim remembers that washing up in his classroom, too. “The kids love it so much, the word ‘skibidi’ is now part of gen Z and gen Alpha vernacular.”

2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(demographics, informal) Generation Alpha


greatest generation

the greatest generation (canonical)
Greatest Generation (alternative)

Popularized by the 1998 book The Greatest Generation.

Other members of the greatest generation found their life's calling in uniform, continuing to serve in the military after the war and helping it to adapt to the changing times.

1998, Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation, Random House, →ISBN, page 386:

My dad did the things that a boy remembers. […] He also taught me that we are here for something bigger than ourselves; he lived out the responsibilities and the sacrifices of the greatest generation to whom we owe so much.

2004 July 29, John Kerry, 2004 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address:

What we have instead is the Greatest Generation, an idea that delineates one of the most important developments in the national mythos over the last several decades.

2013, Kenneth Rose, Myth and the Greatest Generation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:

The generation of people who came of age during the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II, especially those born from the early 1900s to late 1920s.


G.I. Generation

greatest generation
greatest generation#English


Gen-Zer

Gen-Zers (plural)
Gen Zedder (alternative)
Gen-Zedder (alternative)
Gen Zer (alternative)
Gen Z-er (alternative)
gen Z-er (alternative)
Gen Z'er (alternative)

/d͡ʒɛn ˈzɛdə/

/d͡ʒɛn ˈziːɚ/

From Gen Z, shortened from Generation Z + -er.

Coordinate term: Gen-Xer

The track makes the 18-year-old Eilish the youngest artist ever to record a Bond theme, the latest in a string of achievements that has made the precocious Gen-Z-er a regular fixture on the Guinness World Records blog.

2020 February 19, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Bond Theme Suits Billie Eilish Quite Well”, in The New York Times:

Another super PAC that supports moderate Republicans, Defending Main Street, has spent over $1.2 million and is running an ad that describes Ms. Leavitt as a “woke Gen-Z’er” and plays a Snapchat video she once posted where she used crude language to refer to her viewers.

2022 September 12, Annie Karni, “Gun Shoot Will Conclude Former Trump Aide’s House Primary Race”, in The New York Times:


Facebook generation

Facebook generation (plural Facebook generations)

Facebook generations (plural)
Generation Facebook (alternative)

(sociology) A demographic group that has matured using social media as their primary networking tool.


13th Gen

Coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe, from being the 13th generation since American independence according to their analysis of generational cycles in the US (Strauss-Howe generational theory).


Generation Zer

Generation Zers (plural)
Generation Zedder (alternative)

The other day, Jann Wenner was talking about his generation. To him, the common notion that millennials and generation Zers have beefs with baby boomers like him – from their assumptions about the primacy of their music to their culpability in climate change – doesn’t fly.

2022 September 16, Jim Farber, “Jann Wenner on Rolling Stone: ‘Some reviews were just insufferably nasty’”, in The Guardian:


Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]”

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324:

Alternative form of thirteener (“Gen-Xer”).


Nintendo generation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nintendo generation.

The generation that came of age playing Nintendo video games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.


iGen

From i- + Gen(eration), from having grown up with the internet and in particular smartphones. Popularized by by American psychologist Jean Twenge in her book iGen (2017).

You should have heard some of the alternatives. According to MTV, other potential names included the Plurals, the Navigators, the Regenerators, iGen, ReGen and the Homeland Generation.

2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(uncommon) Clipping of iGeneration; synonym of Generation Z.


Generation K

Coined by British economist and author Noreena Hertz in 2015. The K stands for Katniss Everdeen, a character in the young-adult novel The Hunger Games (2008).

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:Generation K.

A demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.


Oregon Trail Generation

the Oregon Trail Generation (canonical)
Oregon Trail generation (alternative)

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Coined in reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.

Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored.

2009, Rhonda Christensen, “Forward”, in Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, page xix:

"I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation."
"What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation."

2018, Kathleen Brooks, Saving Shadows, unnumbered page:

Unlike the millennial generation that followed us— the “digital natives” who can never remember a time before computers—the Oregon Trail Generation grew up on the cusp of changes that transformed modern life.

2021, Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic, page 18:

(US) A transitional microgeneration born from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early-to-mid 1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.


Generation Zedder

en-noun

Generation Zedder (plural Generation Zedders)

On a high wall in the corner of Social Chain’s Manchester office, with a look of serene exasperation, Jesus Christ looks down on the sea of millennials and Generation Zedders (or whatever the dominant term is for the under-20s this month) tapping out tweets and social media stories.

2018 January 14, Simon Parkin, “Inside Britain’s meme factory”, in The Observer, page 17:

So we’re still not online as moving day approaches and it’s looking like our new digs won’t be digital right away. I break it to Youngest Child, a Generation Zedder raised by the interweb, that we may be temporarily off-grid.

2019 September 28, Janet Christie, “Youngest solves the no wi-fi issue in our new home: Mum’s the word”, in The Scotsman, page 8:

Linguistic experts say young people – Generation Zedders, so those in their early 20s and teens – have got a thing about full stops at the end of text messages.

2020 September 1, Nicola Whitfield, “Sorry, kids, the full stop is here to stay. Period.”, in News24, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2020:

Imagine showing this programme to someone currently in their teens and saying: “There you go, sonny. That’s what you Generation Zedders are missing out on. Jealous?”

2020 November 6, Mike Ward, “Annie’s a punk shocker”, in Daily Express, page 39:

So: congratulations millennials and Generation Zedders: we did it! We finally have our before and after, the one we will be experts on when it comes to passing wisdom on to our anticipated grand-younglings and beyond. For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.

2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group:

Cord cutting is becoming a thing in the United States as Generation ‘Zedders’ and Millennials ditch free-to-air and cable broadcasters to consume all their media, including sport, through streaming apps on their various devices.

2021 July 1, Ashley Browne, “Tell ’em they’re streaming”, in AFL Record, page 102:

Research shows that only 14 per cent of Generation Zedders have enough spare cash to weather rising prices, compared to 52 per cent of Millennials (in their 30s), 64 per cent of Generation X (in their 40s and 50s), which probably includes your parents, and 60 per cent of Baby Boomers (the post-war generation now in their 60s).

2022 February 28, Michael Kennedy, “How much longer can our finances stand these spiralling rises?”, in The Irish News, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2022:

We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology. Younger people, Generation Zedders, have a pragmatic view of these matters. They all know who they are and are not fussed by new definitions, and neither should the older generations.

2022 June 1, Harvey Fewings, “Generational Change: Fundamental to the Human Story”, in The LOCAL News, number 7, page 8, columns 3–4:

Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’

2023 May 27, Cole Moreton, Ray Burmiston, “I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key…”, in Daily Mail, page 4:


Zer

Boomers and Xers were told to stay silent, but millennials and Zers were encouraged to speak up. The millennials and some of these Zers who have grown up and joined our teaching force were raised in a model that put them at the center of the family circle, which helps explain why millennial and Gen Z teachers would want more interaction with authority figures.

2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:

Learning from the past is not the same as living in the past. Learning from the past is the only way one can truly live either progressively or conservatively in the present, whatever one’s preference might be. But don’t expect Millennials and Zers to believe such a tale.

2022 June 22, Robert Shinkoskey, “Ancient technology for today”, in Wabash Plain Dealer, page A7:

The percentage of people who are interested in extreme sports is rising, and most of these people belong to the age groups of Millennials and Zers, who already seek out glamping.

2023, Alastair M. Morrison, Dimitrios Buhalis, editors, Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism Supply and Demand, Routledge, →ISBN:


Generation Beta

Using beta as the letter that follows alpha, as in Generation Alpha.

Given all this disruption, coupled with the normalization of lower-paid work-from-home jobs and gig work, Generation Z began missing key economic milestones. They were unemployed or underemployed and unable to afford travel, or to make large purchases, such as homes and cars. College graduation rates for their children, Generation Beta, dropped precipitously.

2022, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN:

Generation Beta will begin around 2025 & could grow up in a home without a hardline phone, media player, or desktop computer.

2022 September 1, “Jobs: Past, Present, Future”, in The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, volume 62, number 35, San Diego, Calif., →OCLC, page 17:

By 2050, Gen Z will be aged between 40 and 55, and will be travelling with their own offspring – Generation Beta, the first ‘AI natives’.

2023 December – 2024 January, “Who’s sitting next to me? How population shifts will change the face of travel”, in Wanderlust, London, →ISSN, page 156:

Now, we’re just months away from the first Generation Beta babies — and firmly on the cusp of a new era of baby naming.

2024 February 2, Lizzy Francis, “The Future Of Baby Naming Is Here, And It's Genderless”, in Tyghe Trimble, editor, Fatherly, New York, N.Y.: BDG Media, Inc., archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:

The generation following Generation Alpha, defined as those born between the mid 2020s and the late 2030s.


coronababy

coronababies (plural)
corona baby (alternative)

We love talking about blackout babies, snowstorm sex and hurricane birth booms. Furlough fertility was a big discussion among federal workers in D.C. during government shutdowns. But I'm not convinced coronababies are going to be headlines come December.

2020 March 23, Petula Dvorak, “Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2020:

Coronavirus isn't likely to give us coronababies – but a pandemic isn't the reason that having children has shifted from an inevitability to a choice, and now, a moral question. A long time ago, "Do we have children?" became "Should we?"

2020 July 25, Sian Cain, “Why a generation is choosing to be child-free”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024:

Understanding whether the pandemic will influence coronababies will take time, but for now, parents can do things to minimize the effects.

2020 September 3, Stav Dimitropoulos, “Will pandemic 'coronababies' live with long-term trauma?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Partners, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:

Truly, births need a push. Predictions of a boom in coronababies were way, way off. Britain, in common with many other developed nations, is experiencing a sharp new slump in fertility, the full extent of which remains unclear. If our neighbours are anything to go by, we are in for an epidemic of empty cradles.

2021 April 2, Colin Brazier, “Britain's Covid baby bust is bleak news”, in The Spectator, London: Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024:

(neologism) A baby conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Gen Beta

(demographics, informal) Generation Beta


pandemic baby

But what's clear now is that the first wave of pandemic babies — covid babies, coronial, pandemic-kids, whatever you want to call the micro-generation of children conceived, carried, and born during the covid-19 crisis is making its way into the world, and their parents have experienced pregnancy in a way that few others in modern history have.

2023 June 30, Cynthia “Salonista" Kosciuczyk, We Endured: Essays of our Lives During Quarantine, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

While this disappointment is not enormous, and many pandemic babies were quite sheltered in the first months of life, it speaks to plenty of dreams deferred.

2023 December 11, Susan Cartmell, Peggy O'Connor, The Perpetual Pivot: Ministry in the Pandemic and Beyond, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:

A person born during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 - 2023).