Generation calculator
Names the generation a birth year falls into, using the Pew Research boundaries. The most widely cited set, though no definition is official.
How to use the generation calculator
Generational boundaries are conventions rather than facts, and different organisations draw them a year or two apart, which is why someone born in 1996 is a Millennial by one definition and Gen Z by another. Only the Baby Boom has a demographically real boundary: it is defined by an actual measurable spike in births after 1945 that ended in 1964. Everything since is marketing shorthand that stuck. The cusp positions matter more than the label — someone at the very start or end of a cohort typically has more in common with the neighbouring one than with the middle of their own, which is why the position figure is more informative than the name.
Questions
1981 to 1996 under the Pew definition, which is the most widely cited. Other sources differ by a year or two.
No. Only the Baby Boom has a demographic basis. An actual measurable birth spike. The rest are conventions.
You are on a cusp, and probably have more in common with the adjacent cohort than with the middle of your own.
Generation Alpha, generally from 2013, with Generation Beta proposed from 2025. Both are provisional.
Because nobody owns the definitions. Pew, Strauss-Howe and various marketing firms each drew their own lines.