That was what I always thought, based on reading "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland--the book that supposedly named us (at least by media accounts, but what do they know?). Sort of a unknown generation, like an 'X' in algebra--"Solve for X! They don't know what they are doing!"
But there is another book, the Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe that I think talks about us being the 10th generation since the founding of the US. I read a bit of that then a pretty butterfly took my attention and I forgot about it (till just now).
Oh look, a plane ...
Oh wait, they call us the "13th Generation" not the tenth generation.
Damn butterflies ...