baby boomlet

American  

noun

1. a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Example Sentences

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A baby boomlet, if any, likely would take a while to occur, as provincial governments would need to revise their laws, and permits still would have to be granted by family-planning agents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2013

Firms that sell car seats, nappies, baby food, toys and cradles will all profit from a post-recession baby boomlet, if it occurs.

From Economist • Oct. 14, 2010

You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now the vanguard of this baby boomlet has hit first grade, where enrollments rose from a 33-year low of 2,894,000 in 1980 to 3,079,000 for 1983-84, with more coming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, eight months after the first soldiers, sailors and airmen returned victorious from Operation Desert Storm, military bases from San Diego to North Carolina are bracing for their own baby boomlet.

From Time Magazine Archive