Generation Names
How Generations Get Their Names. Millennials weren't always Millennials.
Each generation has different likes, dislikes, and attributes.
Lost Generation
The term lost generation is often applied to those who reached young adulthood during and just after the First World War, due to the high proportion of the population that perished in the war and the directionless, aimless life led by some post-war. The term is often used more broadly to refer to any generation that has ‘lost’ its values or morals, etc.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1890 | 1915 |
Greatest Generation/G.I. Generation.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the Greatest Generation refers to the ‘generation of Americans reaching adulthood during the Second World War (1939–45)’. While evidence exists for greatest generation being used to refer to these men and women during the Second World War, Greatest Generation as a moniker was more or less coined by journalist Tom Brokaw in his 1998 book The Greatest Generation. This generation is also sometimes known as the G.I. Generation. Unleash the power of creativity with our team and group name generator! Finding the right name can be a daunting task, but fear not – our website is here to streamline the process and provide you with endless possibilities. Let's embark on this naming journey and discover a name that captures the your team and group.
- Born 1901-1926.
- Children of the WWI generation & fighters in WWII & young in the Great Depression…all leading to strong models of teamwork to overcome and progress.
- Their Depression was The Great One; their war was The Big One; their prosperity was the legendary Happy Days.
- They saved the world and then built a nation.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1910 | 1925 |
Silent Generation
The silent generation is composed of the Americans born between the mid-1920s and the early 1940s. Due to the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on the birth rate, this generation had a much smaller population that those that followed. The term silent generation first appeared in a 1951 essay in Time magazine, with reference to their silence during the McCarthy era and their willingness to assimilate into the social order. Unleash the power of creativity with our team and group name generator! Finding the right name can be a daunting task, but fear not – our website is here to streamline the process and provide you with endless possibilities. Let's embark on this naming journey and discover a name that captures the your team and group.
- Born 1927- 1945.
- Went through their formative years during an era of suffocating conformity, but also during the postwar happiness: Peace! Jobs! Suburbs! Television! Rock ‘n Roll! Cars! Playboy Magazine!
- Korean and Vietnam War generation.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1923 | 1944 |
Beat Generation
While there are doubts about the etymology of this sense of beat, it seems pretty straightforward where the term beat generation came from. In a 1948 conversation with writer John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac is noted as having spoken of a ‘beat generation’.
Baby boomers
The most famous American generational cohort, the baby boomers or the boomers refer to the generation born during the ‘baby boom’ following World War II, usually in the period between 1945 and 1960. The term baby boom, referring to a conspicuous rise in childbirth, has been in American English since the late 19th century. Unleash the power of creativity with our team and group name generator! Finding the right name can be a daunting task, but fear not – our website is here to streamline the process and provide you with endless possibilities. Let's embark on this naming journey and discover a name that captures the your team and group.
- Born between 1946 and 1964. Two sub-sets:
- 1. the save-the-world revolutionaries of the ’60s and ’70s;
- and 2. the party-hardy career climbers (Yuppies) of the ’70s/’80s.
- The “me” generation.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1945 | 1964 |
Generation X
Although Generation X is generally used to refer to the generation of North Americans reaching adulthood in the 1980s and 1990s, the term itself is a few decades older. The termGeneration X can be traced back to as early as the 1950s, when it was used more broadly to refer to a ‘generation of young people about whose future there is uncertainty’. Unleash the power of creativity with our team and group name generator! Finding the right name can be a daunting task, but fear not – our website is here to streamline the process and provide you with endless possibilities. Let's embark on this naming journey and discover a name that captures the your team and group.
- The “latch-key kids” grew up street-smart but isolated, often with divorced or career-driven parents. Latch-Key came from the house key kids wore around their neck, because they would go home from school to an empty house.
- Entrepreneurial.
- Very individualistic.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1961 | 1981 |
Generation Y
In an alphabetically sensible move, the generation loosely following Generation X is often known as Generation Y. Thought to hold attitudes and values in contrast to those of Generation X, Generation Y is also a much larger cohort than the preceding Generation X. Because many members of Generation Y are the children of baby boomers, the cohort is also known as echo boomers, referring to those born between the late 1970s and the early 1990s.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1975 | 1995 |
Millennials
The term millennial, referring to the generation entering adulthood around the turn of the 21stcentury, has been around since the early 1990s. It dates from the 1991 book Generationsby William Strauss and Neil Howe, which covers their theory of social generations, now known as the ‘Strauss-Howe generational theory’. Strauss and Howe have gone on to write several books about the social impact of the millennials.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1980 | 1994 |
Generation Z
Generation Z (commonly abbreviated to Gen Z, also known as iGeneration or in the USA Homeland Generation) is the generational cohort following the Millennials. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s and ending birth years ranging from the late 2000s to mid-2020s.
A significant aspect of this generation is its widespread usage of the internet from a young age. Members of Generation Z are typically thought of as being comfortable with technology, and interacting on social media websites for a significant portion of their socializing. Some commentators have suggested that growing up through the Great Recession has given the cohort a feeling of unsettlement and insecurity.
| Births Start |
Births End |
| 1995 | --- |
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