What generation am I?

Your generation comes from your birth year. These are the years Pew Research Center uses:

  • Greatest Generation: before 1928
  • Silent Generation: 1928 to 1945
  • Baby Boomers: 1946 to 1964
  • Generation X: 1965 to 1980
  • Millennials: 1981 to 1996
  • Generation Z: 1997 to 2012
  • Generation Alpha: 2013 to 2024
  • Generation Beta: 2025 to 2039

Generations have no official borders. Researchers pick the years, and they don't all pick the same ones. So the years near a border get different answers: born in 1996, you're a Millennial by Pew's years and Gen Z by McCrindle's.

Tool description

Type a birth year and pick a definition. The tool shows:

  • The generation and its birth years
  • Your age this year, counted at this year's birthday
  • The ages of the whole generation this year
  • A table of all generations, with yours highlighted

When the other definition puts the year in a different generation, the tool tells you which one.

Definitions

Pew Research Center is a US research group. It set years up to Generation Z, born 1997 to 2012, and none for later generations. The tool goes on with Generation Alpha from 2013 and Generation Beta from 2025, the year McCrindle starts it.

McCrindle is an Australian research company, the one that named Generation Alpha and Generation Beta. Its generations are about 15 years each:

  • Builders: before 1946
  • Baby Boomers: 1946 to 1964
  • Generation X: 1965 to 1979
  • Millennials, also called Generation Y: 1980 to 1994
  • Generation Z: 1995 to 2009
  • Generation Alpha: 2010 to 2024
  • Generation Beta: 2025 to 2039

Example

Birth year 1996 with the Pew Research Center definition, in 2026:

  • Generation: Millennials, born 1981 to 1996
  • Your age this year: 30
  • Millennials are 30 to 45 this year
  • McCrindle's answer is Generation Z

Features

  • Your generation from a birth year, by Pew Research Center or McCrindle years
  • Your age and your generation's ages this year
  • All generations in one table