Gen Z Name: iGen

[Marypoza]

(11-11-2018, 12:45 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: In the past, names were usually given after they reached young adulthood and their behavior prompted the name. Except for Boomers who were named after their demographic traits; I don't know when that name was coined.

I found this site which explains how the three generations prominent today got their names, and when. By Strauss and Howe dating, the oldest baby boomer was already 20 years old when his/her generation got its name.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/542159/ho...illennials

I know the Silent Generation got its name because of how quiet and conforming young adults were in the 1950s, and the Lost Generation got its name because of their dissolute behavior in the 20s. The GIs are just the World War II generation of soldier-fighting age. Tom Hanks called them the Greatest Generation much later in Saving Private Ryan, I believe, because of their heroism in fighting the war.

-- actually Eric, it was Tom Brokaw who named the Greatest Generation, not Tom Hanks :

I remember reading something about Homies wanting to be called Founders, altho none of them interviewed said what they had found & they probably don't know what either. My guess (operative word) is that the Homies will get their collective generation name when they become adults like most of the other generations did, Boomers & Millies being the 2 exceptions. I can remember being called a Boomer when l was growing up & l'll bet other Boomers do too. As 4 Millies, l wonder if S&H had something 2 do with that. Millies were also called Gen Y (coming after Gen X) but that gave way 2 Millenials, which is what S&H were calling them