Xennials

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Social generations of the Western world

Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.

Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction.[2][3] Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.

In 2020, Xennial was added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2021:[4]

Xennial, n. and adj.: "A person born between the late 1970s and early 1980s, after (or towards the end of) Generation X and before (or at the beginning of) the millennial generation, and typically regarded as exhibiting characteristics of both of these generations"

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Merriam-Webster was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Russell, Dan (23 August 2022). Snake Oil: Genuine Marketing in an Age of Cure-Alls. Morgan James. ISBN 978-1-63195-832-8.
  3. ^ Stollen, Marleen (8 November 2017). "Between Generation X and the Millennials: There is a term for people born in the early 80s". The Independent.
  4. ^ "Updates to the OED New words list December 2021". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. December 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2023.