Generations
🧑🤝🧑 Generation Chart
Pick a birth year to see which generation it belongs to. Generations are a social classification by era of birth — not fortune-telling.
Born in 1966
Generation X 1965–1980
Grew up with television, reaching adulthood as the digital era began.
All generations
Greatest Generation
1901–1927Came of age through the Great Depression and World War II.
Silent Generation
1928–1945Grew up during wartime and the postwar years.
Baby Boomers
1946–1964Born in the postwar baby boom.
Generation X
1965–1980Grew up with television, reaching adulthood as the digital era began.
Millennials (Gen Y)
1981–1996Grew up as the internet spread, coming of age around the year 2000.
Generation Z
1997–2012Digital natives who grew up with smartphones and social media.
Generation Alpha
2013–2024The first generation growing up with tablets and AI as everyday tools.
Generation Beta
2025–A newly emerging cohort, born from 2025 onward.
Ranges follow the widely cited Pew Research Center definitions, with commonly used ranges for the oldest (pre-Silent) and newest (Alpha, Beta) cohorts. Generation boundaries vary by source; descriptions cover only the era of birth, not personality. About our data