echo boomer

noun

, Informal.

1. a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.

Word History and Origins

Origin of echo boomer¹

So called because many are children (“echos”) of baby boomers, and the birthrate also increased in the 1980s and 1990s

Example Sentences

Across the nation, the Echo Boomer population has spiked near military installations and in Texas oil boom country.

From Washington Post

A judge searches for free labor Topics: Employment, , federal judicial clerkship, internships, Jobs, , william martinez, , This is a story of what’s happening to the best and the brightest of the echo boomer generation — the children of the baby boomers, many of whom, to echo Bob Dylan, have finished 20 years of schooling, only to find they can’t get put on the day shift.

From Salon

Executives made a show of their newfound enthusiasm for the energetic world of the echo boomer by staging a rave to introduce Pontiac's new crossover vehicle, the Aztek.

From Time Magazine Archive