All Gen Zers have been born
Generation Z is over, probably has been for a year or two; the oldest Gen Zers are in college now. Post-Z kids are already being born as we speak.
Each generation lasts around 15 to 20 years. The Baby Boom lasted from 1945 to the early 60s. Gen Xers were born from the early 60s to 1980-ish. Millennials were from 1980-ish to the mid-to-late 90s. Gen Z began in the mid-to-late 90s and probably ended in the late 2010s.
I’d say Gen Z ended in 2016 or 2017. They’re pretty significant years, they definitely feel like a boundary between then and now, before and after.
When I was growing up, nobody had a name for post-Gen X. The term Millennial didn’t become ubiquitous until the last ten years or so. “Gen Z” is equally new, which implies that Millennials were Gen Y, though nobody calls them that.
We haven’t even come up with a name for post-Gen Z yet. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say they’re probably gonna be called the iGeneration, or the eGeneration, though eGeneration would be a more fitting term for Millennials or Gen Z; the e- prefix was big in the 90s and early 00s, but not so much anymore. That said, it’s the Baby Boomers and Gen Xer who will be coming up with the nicknames, so they’d probably call post-Zers something stupid like that.
