This seems to be the breakdown of the Generations that have set foot on American soil
Arthurian 1433-1460
Humanist 1461-1482
Picaresque 1512-1540
Elizabethan 1541-1565
Sentimental 1566-1587
Puritan (Righteous)1588-1614
Cavalier 1615-1647
Glorious 1648-1673
Enlightenment 1647-1700
Awakening 1701-1723
Liberty 1724-1741
Republican 1742-1766
Compromise 1767-1791
Transcendental 1792-1821
Gilded 1822-1842
Progressive 1843-1859.
Missionary 1860-1882
Lost 1883-1900
G.I. (WWII, Greatest) 1901-1927.
Silent 1928-1945
Baby Boomers (Me, Worst) 1946-1964
Generation X (Baby Busters, Reagan) 1965-1981
Generation Y (Echo Boom, Millennial) 1982-1996
Generation Z (Cyber, New Adaptive) 1997-2025?
I've heard that we are the 13th before but I only count 10 going back to the founding of America,
The only way we could be 13th if we break the late Baby Boomers off into Generation Jones and the early WWII off into the Flappers and maybe split the large time period Transcendentals.
But if you do that you can do that with most generations and we would end up being the 20-26th
Then again, Some of the founding fathers (i.e. Ben Franklin Born 1706) were of the Awakening Generation, So if you count back to them we are the 13th generation if not we are the 10th.
OK, 1st question is: what is the mathematical definition of a generation?
Obviously by this list (I have seen it before), there is no defined time range! That's ridiculous in itself.
20 years MITE be an acceptable average range for a generation. Altho since we're so communicative in the last century, we often define ourselves more narrowly - by decades.
To me, the average generation-length ("gestation", if you will) is 30 years - but that's considering how old you are having children, how old your mom & dad were, how old your grandparents were, etc, all when they had children. Which muddles it, cuz people are having kids all the time.
I don't like this method! Let's just go back to naming decades, not naming ethereal "generations" of varying scope!
If they put President Reagan on the 10 dollar bill then "X" and "Reagan" really will be synonymous!