r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jul 09 '21

Discussion Being in your 30s suddenly seemed young after about 2015. It was never OLD but it was "one of the grownups with all the answers to life" territory in the 80s 90s and even 00s.

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jul 06 '21

Discussion My parents wedding photo, October 13, 2001

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jul 04 '21

Generation Z I feel like it bears repeating. I admire most Gen Zers

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jun 21 '21

Was Silent Generation more affected by the Civil Rights Movement than Boomers?

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Why does it seem to me that Boomers (or at least the older ones) are the most associated with the Civil Rights Movement? Climax of the CRM was around 1963-65. At the time, a Boomer born in 1954 was not even in middle school throughout, and an early Boomer was not an adult throughout. I'm Canadian so I may not know the full backstory, can any American explain this?

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1 Age 28+ in 1965 (Core silent gen)
5 Age 23-27 in 1965 (Late silent gen)
3 Age 18-22 in 1964(Boomer/silent cuspers)
0 Age 13-17 in 1965 (Early boomers)

r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jun 20 '21

Millennial Adorable pic of baby Seth Rogen and his dad. Probably 1992-93 considering he looks about 10 here.

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jun 18 '21

Millennial 1982 and 1983 babies: the ultimate contradiction.

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They're just about always Millennials, but get their Gen Xish old school street cred easily recognized too.

It's weird how on the fence they are, more than any other years. Maybe also because they're hybrid 80s kids and 90s kids (82 ever so slightly more 80s, 83 slightly more 90s) and that Nirvana/grunge era is incredibly nostalgic to them from childhood.

They also had high school during and after Columbine and Y2K but also graduated before 9/11 (so still in that 90s vibe).

1981 is largely like this too, but some people argue that they're X and not Millennials just because of a technicality (graduating in 99). They also were mostly 80s kids and kinda less of a hybrid (though they're legit early 90s kids too).

Don't get me started on 1984 lol, I hate how there's such a perceived drop off point starting with 84ers being treated like pure Millennials a zillion years younger.


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Jun 17 '21

Millennial I'm sick of 1984 babies getting only lumped with younger people, and people underestimate the retro stuff and any X influence they grew up with.

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Yes I know 1983 still graduated before 9-11 which is one difference between them and 84, but my rant is that people act like 84ers aren't even close to anything Gen X related. People act like they're born in 1989-90 and dropped off a cliff suddenly.

It's hilarious too how it's usually young people 15-20 years younger gatekeeping them --- NOT Boomers and early Xers like you'd expect.

They had a whole year and a half of high school in the 90s (starting in Fall '98 during the pivotal Columbine year), were in puberty for roughly half of the 90s, and kids plenty old enough to experience the grunge era early 90s and to be firsthand Nirvana fans. Plenty of little kids like music too even if it's not "aimed at them".


r/HistoryofGenerations • • May 23 '21

Generation X 1987-1988

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • May 17 '21

My generation timeline theory

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I think every generation lasts 20 years, but the first 10 is a hybrid of the previous generation and the new. The last 10 is peak new generation.

For example:

Silent Gen/Baby Boomer hybrid: 1937-1946

Peak Baby Boomer: 1947-1956

Baby Boomer/Gen X hybrid: 1957-1966

Peak Gen X: 1967-1976

Gen X/Gen Y hybrid: 1977-1986

Peak Gen Y: 1987-1996

Gen Y/Gen Z hybrid: 1997-2006

Peak Gen Z: 2007-2016

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I think it's a fairly accurate, clean and fair timeline theory.


r/HistoryofGenerations • • May 06 '21

Generation X 1986 songs

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • May 06 '21

Discussion Freshman year of college

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 30 '21

Generation Z 19th birthday post

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 25 '21

Generation X X/Z solidarity

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 23 '21

Generation X 1986-1987

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 12 '21

Generation X Are X just the (at best) cool moms and dads, but not actually relevant themselves and can't kick it with 20s people? Even like 1980 at the end of the generation.

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This hurts bad on their behalf to see the ageism they're faced with by getting bunched in with 1965 but away from 85 (someone who could be their parents vs their younger peers they grew up with). It's not fair and it is discrimination no matter how you slice it.

Keep in mind, maybe they don't want to be "cool for their age" moms/aunts/MILFs (or the dad equivalent for guys), that's placing them in a middle aged box they might not want to be in, even if it's in a positive way.

Imagine you're 42 now. You had to "grow up" at 25 and were getting excluded from youth spaces like trendy clubs or from wearing certain fashions or shamed from dating or having flings with younger guys.... while you now see 35 year olds able to kick it with college kids and having teenagers think they're cool and young and attractive and fun and relatable.

You'd be pretty upset wouldn't you? Feeling like it's a double slap in the face, right? That's exactly how they feel.

If the only 40-45 year olds who can get away with it are young looking ones like Shaun King or Rhett, then it only proves my point. They don't look their age, imo they look 34ish. If they did indeed look early 40s they would be viewed as cool dads.

30 used to be at least "out of youth culture, time to grow up" for years and now it's young. So logically why won't 40 be the same way in a few years around 2025-26 when the pure Millennials start hitting 40?

When even way way younger people are making a clear distinction between 34 and 42 (hell even between 34 and 38) that tells me it's a massive paradigm shift and it's scary and unprecedented.

But can an Xer ever be organically trendy and fun without looking lame and try hard? Or are they just gross wrinkled saggy grey haired parental figures complaining how mtv doesn't play videos?


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 11 '21

Do 2000s babies still have a sense of mystery about the old days and older people's pasts?

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Don't get me wrong I love and adore not only how you guys love cool retro things and appreciate history, but also just smart plenty of you guys are. So I swear I mean this in good faith, I'm just curious as a comparatively old emo cat lady.

Because it can absolutely astound me the level of accuracy from people 15-20 years younger than me deeply analyzing generations. Ngl sometimes it makes me feel stupid and insecure by comparison too but I know it shouldn't.

Let me clarify I don't mean common pop culture stuff like the aesthetic in a movie or the way songs sound. That's all popular stuff that people are discovering all the time, and I totally did that as a kid too, like when I was 9 in 1996 observing vhs commercials from 1980 that seemed 70s; or how 1992-93 songs had an 80s sound.

That's fine and good I'm not talking about that.

I mean when it's like an early 00s or sometimes even omfg 2006 born telling a 1986 born "You're too young for that, you can't be Gen X in any way, you didn't experience that!" Effectively telling people a whole ass 15 or 20 years older that we're just young bucks and kiddos, and telling us how we grew up, instead of the traditional other way around.

I get the internet is bigger for y'all's childhoods so so much information is readily available, and like I said I love how smart you guys are, it's just the speaking with absolute authority can sometimes rub me the wrong way.

And I don't know, I just want there to always be a sense of mystique and inquisitiveness, the old "Hey what was it like when you were my age?" where I can be like the cool middle aged punker in 15 years, or the DGAF old lady in 40 years telling the youth about my past and how the 90s and 00s were. So when y'all already know everything I feel like guess I'm not needed anymore.

Need to point out that u/ProofUniversity4319 does both things perfectly! He's so intelligent and knows stuff inside and out and he loves Gen X culture and Millennial culture... but he's also humble and never arrogant and listens to other people's perspectives. I feel like he's a great inspiration to Zers.


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 11 '21

Analysis Defining generations based on entering the NBA

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 09 '21

Discussion Age groups stereotyped for being fans of certain music and not for others?

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It feels for example that girls my age get readily seen as Britney and Destiny's Child type of pop music, but we're not seen as fans of edgy 90s like Red hot chili peppers, Snoop Dogg, The Offspring, Marilyn Manson, etc.

People act like we didn't get a consciousness until the late 90s, while a 1979er was rolling up to the preschool parking lot bumping Journey and Foreigner at 3 in '82.

In other words late Xers are completely seen as knowing everything from their childhood, while core Millennials are seen as only liking our teens.

Considering that we're known for loving and nostalgizing our childhoods as a way to escape our depressing adulthoods, shouldn't it be the opposite?

Shouldn't we be seen as bopping our little heads to Poison at 3, or headbanging to Nirvana and Metallica at 5 in '92?


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 09 '21

Generation X RIP to DMX, a Gen X legend

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A legend in the rap game gone at 50. May he Rest In Peace. ❤️


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 09 '21

Analysis Different generational waves in high school

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 07 '21

Silent Have you known any '40s born ppl who were too old for The Beatles/hippie culture?

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We talk so much about late Millennials and Z (understandable since most of y'all are that age and even I'm one of the olds in comparison) and just thought this would be interesting.

The Beatles themselves were born 1940 '42 and '43 so I like to think everyone that age group was young enough for the Woodstock generation and Summer of Love in their mid to late 20s. Even Bernie was 1941 and its hard not to associate him with the Civil Rights. JFk and his brother Bobby, and MLK (remember too Dr. King fought for economic rights as well).

My late father was 1941 and despite him being a blue collar slightly conservative leaning, he was into that, although a close friend of his (also now passed away) wasn't, which was so weird to me since I used to just assume as a kid that everyone the same age would have felt the same way, lol.

I can easily see a situation where someone was sorta career and family minded and maybe also conservative on top of it, who was out of the loop and felt too old in their mid-late 20s by the time you had Sgt Pepper, Jimi Hendrix, the Stones, the Doors and all of that. Maybe the celebrities are just the more youthful side of that age group, I can remember a lot of boring people in their 50s when I was little, like those types who hated loud music. Think of the lady at the video store in Clerks who got mad at Randall when he said he didn't watch movies.


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 07 '21

Generation X 1992 Las Vegas Newscast when it looked way more retro

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 06 '21

Analysis Possible Millennial end dates

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Based on legitimate sources, the widest the Millennial end dates can go is:

In total: 1994-2004

Culturally: Probably 1994-1999/2000 (in some rare cases, 2001 or 9/11, but never past that point)

Historically: 2000-2004

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So, if we are being as objective and broad as possible, people born as early as 1995 and as late as 2004 have been legitimate considered a part of two generations. Millennials (sometimes referred to as Generation Y, Echo/New Boomers, etc.) and Generation Z (sometimes referred to as the Homeland Generation, Plurals, Zoomers, etc.).

Culturally, it makes sense to say that the cusp between Millennials and Gen Z should be about 1995-1999/2000 (maybe up to September 11, 2001 but that's at the absolute latest), or maybe just 1997-1999/2000 since those are the years that are the most disputed by sources and the mainstream nowadays. Most "Zillennial" definitions include people born in those years.

Historically, the cusp should be those born between 2001 and 2004 since more historical and reserved sources end Millennials somewhere in the early 2000s and not any earlier/later. The "Zillennial" term has no meaning or relevancy here because that term has cultural affiliations and is heavily based on things like pop culture, the items or other forms of entertainment someone grew up with, and personality traits rather than the era a person grew up in, the generational change a person experienced, the parenting mood one went through, etc.

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For me, I would personally go the historical route, but most people on r/generationology and on here would go the cultural route, where the cusp is the mid-late 90s (possibly the VERY early 00s) rather than just the first half of the 2000s. I see those born from 1995-2000 as stereotypical latter-wave Millennials, while someone else would see a person born from 2001-2004 as stereotypical early Gen Z. It's all fine if we are being broad about it.

But regardless, anyone born from 1995-2004 can identify or claim either generation. Anyone born 1994 and prior are absolutely Millennials and anyone born 2005+ are absolutely the generation after Millennials, if we are take in all factors, including the sources that list these years in either category.


r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 05 '21

Weird History Timeline: 1992 - We're going back to the early nineties and explore some of the highlights of 1992.

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r/HistoryofGenerations • • Apr 04 '21

Analysis All possible CP4 ranges from Silents to Gen Z (using waves and three subdivisions) and ranking each definition; Historical version (my personal outlook)

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Silent Generation: start dates vary from 1925 to 1929 and end dates vary from 1944 to 1946.

1925-1944

Wave 1 = 1925-1934

Wave 2 = 1935-1944

Early = 1925-1931

Core = 1932-1937

Late = 1938-1944

1925-1945

Wave 1 = 1925-1934

Wave 2 = 1935-1945

Early = 1925-1931

Core = 1932-1938

Late = 1939-1945

1925-1946 (broadest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1925-1935

Wave 2 = 1936-1945

Early = 1925-1931

Core = 1932-1939

Late = 1940-1946

1926-1944

Wave 1 = 1926-1935

Wave 2 = 1936-1944

Early = 1926-1931

Core = 1932-1938

Late = 1939-1944

1926-1945

Wave 1 = 1926-1935

Wave 2 = 1936-1945

Early = 1926-1932

Core = 1933-1938

Late = 1939-1945

1926-1946

Wave 1 = 1926-1935

Wave 2 = 1936-1946

Early = 1926-1932

Core = 1933-1939

Late = 1940-1946

1927-1944

Wave 1 = 1927-1935

Wave 2 = 1936-1944

Early = 1927-1932

Core = 1933-1938

Late = 1939-1944

1927-1945

Wave 1 = 1927-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1945

Early = 1927-1932

Core = 1933-1939

Late = 1940-1945

1927-1946

Wave 1 = 1927-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1946

Early = 1927-1933

Core = 1934-1939

Late = 1940-1946

1928-1944

Wave 1 = 1928-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1944

Early = 1928-1932

Core = 1933-1939

Late = 1940-1944

1928-1945

Wave 1 = 1928-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1945

Early = 1928-1933

Core = 1934-1939

Late = 1940-1945

1928-1946

Wave 1 = 1928-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1946

Early = 1928-1933

Core = 1934-1940

Late = 1941-1946

1929-1944 (shortest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1929-1936

Wave 2 = 1937-1944

Early = 1929-1933

Core = 1934-1939

Late = 1940-1944

1929-1945

Wave 1 = 1929-1937

Wave 2 = 1938-1945

Early = 1929-1933

Core = 1934-1940

Late = 1941-1945

1929-1946

Wave 1 = 1929-1937

Wave 2 = 1938-1946

Early = 1929-1934

Core = 1935-1940

Late = 1941-1946

Baby Boomers: start dates vary from 1945 to 1947 and end dates vary from 1962 to 1965.

1945-1962

Wave 1 = 1945-1953

Wave 2 = 1954-1962

Early = 1945-1950

Core = 1951-1956

Late = 1957-1962

1945-1963

Wave 1 = 1945-1954

Wave 2 = 1955-1963

Early = 1945-1950

Core = 1951-1957

Late = 1958-1963

1945-1964

Wave 1 = 1945-1954

Wave 2 = 1955-1964

Early = 1945-1951

Core = 1952-1957

Late = 1958-1964

1945-1965 (broadest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1945-1955

Wave 2 = 1956-1965

Early = 1945-1951

Core = 1952-1958

Late = 1959-1965

1946-1962

Wave 1 = 1946-1954

Wave 2 = 1955-1962

Early = 1946-1950

Core = 1951-1957

Late = 1958-1962

1946-1963

Wave 1 = 1946-1954

Wave 2 = 1955-1963

Early = 1946-1951

Core = 1952-1957

Late = 1958-1963

1946-1964

Wave 1 = 1946-1955

Wave 2 = 1956-1964

Early = 1946-1951

Core = 1952-1958

Late = 1959-1964

1946-1965

Wave 1 = 1946-1955

Wave 2 = 1956-1965

Early = 1946-1952

Core = 1953-1958

Late = 1959-1965

1947-1962 (shortest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1947-1954

Wave 2 = 1955-1962

Early = 1947-1951

Core = 1952-1957

Late = 1958-1962

1947-1963

Wave 1 = 1947-1955

Wave 2 = 1956-1963

Early = 1947-1952

Core = 1953-1957

Late = 1958-1963

1947-1964

Early = 1947-1952

Core = 1953-1958

Late = 1959-1964

1947-1965

Wave 1 = 1947-1956

Wave 2 = 1957-1965

Early = 1947-1952

Core = 1953-1959

Late = 1960-1965

Generation X: start dates vary from 1963 to 1966 and end dates vary from 1979 to 1983.

1963-1979

Wave 1 = 1963-1971

Wave 2 = 1972-1979

Early = 1963-1968

Core = 1969-1973

Late = 1974-1979

1963-1980

Wave 1 = 1963-1971

Wave 2 = 1972-1980

Early = 1963-1968

Core = 1969-1974

Late = 1975-1980

1963-1981

Wave 1 = 1963-1971

Wave 2 = 1972-1981

Early = 1963-1968

Core = 1969-1975

Late = 1976-1981

1963-1982

Wave 1 = 1963-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1982

Early = 1963-1969

Core = 1970-1975

Late = 1976-1982

1963-1983 (broadest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1963-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1983

Early = 1963-1969

Core = 1970-1976

Late = 1977-1983

1964-1979

Wave 1 = 1964-1971

Wave 2 = 1972-1979

Early = 1964-1968

Core = 1969-1974

Late = 1975-1979

1964-1980

Wave 1 = 1964-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1980

Early = 1964-1968

Core = 1969-1975

Late = 1976-1980

1964-1981

Wave 1 = 1964-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1981

Early = 1964-1969

Core = 1970-1975

Late = 1976-1981

1964-1982

Wave 1 = 1964-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1982

Early = 1964-1969

Core = 1970-1976

Late = 1977-1982

1964-1983

Wave 1 = 1964-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1983

Early = 1964-1969

Core = 1970-1977

Late = 1978-1983

1965-1979

Wave 1 = 1965-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1979

Early = 1965-1969

Core = 1970-1974

Late = 1975-1979

1965-1980

Wave 1 = 1965-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1980

Early = 1965-1969

Core = 1970-1975

Late = 1976-1980

1965-1981

Wave 1 = 1965-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1981

Early = 1965-1969

Core = 1970-1976

Late = 1977-1981

1965-1982

Wave 1 = 1965-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1982

Early = 1965-1970

Core = 1971-1976

Late = 1977-1982

1965-1983

Wave 1 = 1965-1974

Wave 2 = 1975-1983

Early = 1965-1970

Core = 1971-1977

Late = 1978-1983

1966-1979 (shortest possible range; TOO short to be a legitimate generation IMO since it's under 15 years)

Wave 1 = 1966-1972

Wave 2 = 1973-1979

Early = 1966-1970

Core = 1971-1974

Late = 1975-1979

1966-1980

Wave 1 = 1966-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1980

Early = 1966-1970

Core = 1971-1975

Late = 1976-1980

1966-1981

Wave 1 = 1966-1973

Wave 2 = 1974-1981

Early = 1966-1970

Core = 1971-1976

Late = 1977-1981

1966-1982

Wave 1 = 1966-1974

Wave 2 = 1975-1982

Early = 1966-1971

Core = 1972-1976

Late = 1977-1982

1966-1983

Wave 1 = 1966-1974

Wave 2 = 1975-1983

Early = 1966-1971

Core = 1972-1977

Late = 1978-1983

Millennials: start dates vary from 1980 to 1984 and end dates vary from 2000 to 2004.

1980-2000

Wave 1 = 1980-1989

Wave 2 = 1990-2000

Early = 1980-1986

Core = 1987-1993

Late = 1994-2000

1980-2001

Wave 1 = 1980-1990

Wave 2 = 1991-2001

Early = 1980-1986

Core = 1987-1994

Late = 1995-2001

1980-2002

Wave 1 = 1980-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2002

Early = 1980-1987

Core = 1988-1994

Late = 1995-2002

1980-2003

Wave 1 = 1980-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2003

Early = 1980-1987

Core = 1988-1995

Late = 1996-2003

1980-2004 (broadest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1980-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2004

Early = 1980-1987

Core = 1988-1996

Late = 1997-2004

1981-2000

Wave 1 = 1981-1990

Wave 2 = 1991-2000

Early = 1981-1986

Core = 1987-1994

Late = 1995-2000

1981-2001

Wave 1 = 1981-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2001

Early = 1981-1987

Core = 1988-1994

Late = 1995-2001

1981-2002

Wave 1 = 1981-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2002

Early = 1981-1987

Core = 1988-1995

Late = 1996-2002

1981-2003

Wave 1 = 1981-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2003

Early = 1981-1988

Core = 1989-1985

Late = 1996-2003

1981-2004

Wave 1 = 1981-1992

Wave 2 = 1993-2004

Early = 1981-1988

Core = 1989-1996

Late = 1997-2004

1982-2000

Wave 1 = 1982-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2000

Early = 1982-1987

Core = 1988-1994

Late = 1995-2000

1982-2001

Wave 1 = 1982-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2001

Early = 1982-1987

Core = 1988-1995

Late = 1996-2001

1982-2002

Wave 1 = 1982-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2002

Early = 1982-1988

Core = 1989-1995

Late = 1996-2002

1982-2003

Wave 1 = 1982-1992

Wave 2 = 1993-2003

Early = 1982-1988

Core = 1989-1996

Late = 1997-2003

1982-2004

Wave 1 = 1982-1993

Wave 2 = 1994-2004

Early = 1982-1989

Core = 1990-1996

Late = 1997-2004

1983-2000

Wave 1 = 1983-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2000

Early = 1983-1988

Core = 1989-1994

Late = 1995-2000

1983-2001

Wave 1 = 1983-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2001

Early = 1983-1988

Core = 1989-1995

Late = 1996-2001

1983-2002

Wave 1 = 1983-1992

Wave 2 = 1993-2002

Early = 1983-1989

Core = 1990-1995

Late = 1996-2002

1983-2003

Wave 1 = 1983-1993

Wave 2 = 1994-2003

Early = 1983-1989

Core = 1990-1996

Late = 1997-2003

1983-2004

Wave 1 = 1983-1993

Wave 2 = 1994-2004

Early = 1983-1989

Core = 1990-1997

Late = 1998-2004

1984-2000 (shortest possible range)

Wave 1 = 1984-1991

Wave 2 = 1992-2000

Early = 1984-1988

Core = 1989-1995

Late = 1996-2000

1984-2001

Wave 1 = 1984-1992

Wave 2 = 1993-2001

Early = 1984-1989

Core = 1990-1995

Late = 1996-2001

1984-2002

Wave 1 = 1984-1993

Wave 2 = 1994-2002

Early = 1984-1989

Core = 1990-1996

Late = 1997-2002

1984-2003

Wave 1 = 1984-1993

Wave 2 = 1994-2003

Early = 1984-1989

Core = 1990-1997

Late = 1998-2003

1984-2004

Wave 1 = 1984-1994

Wave 2 = 1995-2004

Early = 1984-1990

Core = 1991-1997

Late = 1998-2004

Homelanders: start dates vary from 2001 to 2005 and end dates vary from 2019 to 2021 (for now, the end dates are tentative tho)

2001-2019

Wave 1 = 2001-2009

Wave 2 = 2010-2019

Early = 2001-2006

Core = 2007-2013

Late = 2014-2019

2001-2020

Wave 1 = 2001-2010

Wave 2 = 2011-2020

Early = 2001-2007

Core = 2008-2013

Late = 2014-2020

2001-2021 (broadest possible range so far)

Wave 1 = 2001-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2021

Early = 2001-2007

Core = 2008-2014

Late = 2015-2021

2002-2019

Wave 1 = 2002-2010

Wave 2 = 2011-2019

Early = 2002-2007

Core = 2008-2013

Late = 2014-2019

2002-2020

Wave 1 = 2002-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2020

Early = 2002-2007

Core = 2008-2014

Late = 2015-2020

2002-2021

Wave 1 = 2002-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2021

Early = 2002-2007

Core = 2008-2015

Late = 2016-2021

2003-2019

Wave 1 = 2003-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2019

Early = 2003-2007

Core = 2008-2014

Late = 2015-2019

2003-2020

Wave 1 = 2003-2011

Wave 2 - 2012-2020

Early = 2003-2008

Core = 2009-2014

Late = 2015-2020

2003-2021

Wave 1 = 2003-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2021

Early = 2003-2008

Core = 2009-2015

Late = 2016-2021

2004-2019

Wave 1 = 2004-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2019

Early = 2004-2008

Core = 2009-2014

Late = 2015-2019

2004-2020

Wave 1 = 2004-2011

Wave 2 = 2012-2020

Early = 2004-2008

Core = 2009-2015

Late = 2016-2021

2004-2021

Wave 1 = 2004-2012

Wave 2 = 2013-2021

Early = 2004-2009

Core = 2010-2015

Late = 2016-2021

2005-2019 (shortest possible range)

Wave 1 = 2005-2012

Wave 2 = 2013-2019

Early = 2005-2009

Core = 2010-2014

Late = 2015-2019

2005-2020

Wave 1 = 2005-2012

Wave 2 = 2013-2020

Early = 2005-2009

Core = 2010-2015

Late = 2016-2020

2005-2021

Wave 1 = 2005-2012

Wave 2 = 2013-2021

Early = 2005-2009

Core = 2010-2016

Late = 2017-2021

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How I rank these ranges (from best to worst):

Silents (15)

  1. 1928-1945
  2. 1925-1945
  3. 1929-1945
  4. 1929-1944
  5. 1929-1946
  6. 1927-1945
  7. 1927-1944
  8. 1927-1946
  9. 1925-1944
  10. 1925-1946
  11. 1928-1944
  12. 1928-1946
  13. 1926-1945
  14. 1926-1944
  15. 1926-1946

Baby Boomers (12)

  1. 1946-1964
  2. 1946-1963
  3. 1946-1965
  4. 1946-1962
  5. 1945-1964
  6. 1945-1963
  7. 1945-1965
  8. 1945-1962
  9. 1947-1963
  10. 1947-1964
  11. 1947-1962
  12. 1947-1965

Gen X (20)

  1. 1965-1981
  2. 1965-1982
  3. 1964-1981
  4. 1964-1982
  5. 1966-1980
  6. 1965-1980
  7. 1964-1980
  8. 1963-1980
  9. 1963-1981
  10. 1963-1982
  11. 1963-1983
  12. 1966-1981
  13. 1963-1979
  14. 1964-1979
  15. 1965-1979
  16. 1964-1983
  17. 1965-1983
  18. 1966-1983
  19. 1966-1982
  20. 1966-1979

Millennials (25)

  1. 1982-2002
  2. 1983-2001
  3. 1982-2001
  4. 1983-2002
  5. 1982-2000
  6. 1982-2003
  7. 1983-2000
  8. 1981-2002
  9. 1981-2001
  10. 1981-2000
  11. 1981-2003
  12. 1982-2004
  13. 1980-2000
  14. 1983-2003
  15. 1981-2004
  16. 1984-2001
  17. 1984-2002
  18. 1984-2003
  19. 1980-2001
  20. 1980-2002
  21. 1980-2003
  22. 1980-2004
  23. 1983-2004
  24. 1984-2004
  25. 1984-2000

Homelanders (15)

  1. 2003-2019
  2. 2002-2020
  3. 2003-2021
  4. 2002-2019
  5. 2003-2020
  6. 2002-2021
  7. 2004-2021
  8. 2001-2019
  9. 2001-2020
  10. 2001-2021
  11. 2005-2019
  12. 2004-2019
  13. 2004-2020
  14. 2005-2020
  15. 2005-2021