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Baby Boomers

cohort born between 1946 and 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom
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Baby Boomers
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Summary

Baby Boomers is a cultural generation of western society[1]. It draws 41,426 Wikipedia views per month (cultural generation of western society category, ranking #5 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Follows: Silent Generation[3]
  • Followed by: Generation X[4]
  • Subclass of: Millennial Saeculum[5]
  • Commons category: Baby boomers[6]
  • Said to be the same as: Me generation[7], boomer[8]
  • Start time: 1946[9]
  • End time: 1964[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Baby boomers[11]
  • Described by source: St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture[12]

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Influence

Things named for Baby Boomers include doomer[13], a term[14].

Why It Matters

Baby Boomers has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for it include doomer[13], a term[14].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → baby-boom-generation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: baby-boom-generation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914816|baby boom generation (#289914816)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/79"
  2. 15w ago · ~2026-37145-11 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → boomer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: boomer"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 14311, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  4. 24w ago · ChicagoGirlD · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by → Generation X
    Subclass of → Millennial Saeculum
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en-us, en */"
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