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• baby boomer
  baby boomer

  noun

  a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
• baby-boomer
  baby-boomer

  noun

  a person born during a baby boom, esp (in Britain and the US) one born during the years 1945–55

baby boomer

American  

noun

• baby boomers
  plural

1. a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.

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baby-boomer British  

noun

1. a person born during a baby boom, esp (in Britain and the US) one born during the years 1945–55

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Noun Inflected Forms

• baby boomers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of baby boomer

First recorded in 1970–75; baby boom + -er ¹

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Once a baby boomer relic, the Democratic Socialists of America now counts more than 120,000 members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

But as an early baby boomer, he grew up in a time when the nation was steeped in anti-communism.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

More men than ever are taking care of their elders, and as the massive baby boomer generation gets older, everyone will have to chip in.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The "baby boomer" owners of about six million American small and medium-sized companies will retire between now and 2035, says a report this year, external from business consulting firm McKinsey.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

And even when accounting for these people, Germany has an ageing population as the baby-boomer generation increasingly retires, and the nationwide birth rate stays stubbornly low.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

In the year through March, immigration crackdowns and continuing, large-scale retirements among the baby-boomer generation mean the labor force—people working or looking for a job— declined by 554,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

A lot of this is due to the growth of the baby-boomer population that has entered their RMD years, which Fidelity says is up over 46% in that same time frame.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

The company sees a total addressable market of $400 billion, retail and institutional, and believes that it will be a key beneficiary of the baby-boomer wealth transfer.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic, with its aftermath of supply chain disruption, has been central in convincing Italian baby-boomer business owners that the time was right to let outsiders into their closely held companies.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023