Millennials Millennials Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. 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. Although millennial characteristics vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions,
Me generation became the world's best-selling perfume. The introspection of the baby boomers and their focus on self-fulfillment has been examined in a serious light in pop culture. Films such as "An Unmarried Woman" (1978), "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), "Ordinary People" (1980) and "The Big Chill" (1983) brought the inner struggles of baby boomers to a wide audience. The self-absorbed side of 1970s life was given a sharp and sometimes poignant satirization in "Manhattan" (1979). More acerbic lampooning came in "Shampoo" (1975) and "Private Benjamin" (1980). The Me generation has also been satirized in retrospect, as the generation called "Generation X" reached