Terminology and birth year definitions. Xennials is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a “micro-generation” or “cross-over generation” of people whose birth years are between the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

What generation is 1981 considered?

On the basis of the time it takes for a generation to mature, U.S. authors William Strauss and Neil Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981 in their 1991 book titled Generations, and differentiate the cohort into an early and late wave.

In the near future, three of the most studied generations will converge on the workplace at the same time: Generation X, the age cohort born before the 1980s but after the Baby Boomers; Generation Y, or Millennials, typically thought of as those born between 1984 and 1996; and Generation Z, those born after 1997, who

What year is micro generation?

If you feel sort of but not quite like a millennial, and sort of but not quite like a Gen Xer, take heart: You might just be a “xennial.” That’s a term for the “micro-generation” born between 1977 and 1985. The term was coined in 2014 by Sarah Stankorb in Good Magazine.

Gen X is officially defined as those born between 1965 and 1980; millennials were born between 1981 and 1996.