<P> Millennials ( also known as Generation Y ) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X . There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends ; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years . Millennials are sometimes referred to as `` echo boomers '' due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s , and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers . The 20th - century trend toward smaller families in developed countries continued , however , so the relative impact of the `` baby boom echo '' was generally less pronounced than the post -- World War II baby boom . </P>
<P> Millennials ( also known as Generation Y ) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X . There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends ; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years . Millennials are sometimes referred to as `` echo boomers '' due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s , and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers . The 20th - century trend toward smaller families in developed countries continued , however , so the relative impact of the `` baby boom echo '' was generally less pronounced than the post -- World War II baby boom . </P>
when did you have to be born to be a millennial
when did you have to be born to be a millennial
early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years
early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years