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 1978
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