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Generation Beta: born 2025 onward

Gen Betas are 0 to 1 years old in 2026. Emerging label. 2025 is the commonly proposed start; there is no agreed end year yet and the name itself may not stick.

Born 2025 onward? You’re

Gen Beta

2025 onwardages 0 to 1 in 2026

Emerging label

The first generation born after AI went mainstream.

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Who counts as Gen Beta

Anyone born from 2025 to today inclusive. In 2026 that means people aged 0 to 1. Within the range, the calculator also tells you where you sit: early Gen Beta is 2025 to 2026. The first and last two years of any generation are cusp years, and the result says so.

Generation Beta is the proposed label for people born from 2025 onward. It is an emerging name rather than an established one: the same demographer who coined Generation Alpha, Mark McCrindle, suggested Beta as the next Greek letter and proposed 2025 to 2039 as the range. No research body has adopted it formally, and Pew Research Center, whose ranges this site uses for every generation from the Greatest to Gen Z, has said nothing about it. The calculator therefore returns Gen Beta for 2025 and later, marks the result “emerging label”, and does not pretend to know the end year.

What can be said with confidence is small but real. Gen Beta is the first generation born after generative AI went mainstream: ChatGPT had been public for more than two years before its first members arrived, so AI-written text, AI tutors and AI-generated video are simply part of the environment rather than an event they will remember. Its parents are mostly younger Millennials and older Gen Z. And it is being born into the lowest US birth rate on record, which makes it a small cohort in a country that is ageing.

Members are 0 or 1 year old in 2026. A child born in 2025 will be 75 in 2100, so this is the first generation on the timeline whose members will, in large numbers, see the twenty-second century. Everything else written about Gen Beta is projection, and this page tries to keep the difference clear.

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What shaped Gen Betas: 6 points of context

Era facts rather than personality claims. Nobody is a stereotype, but everyone born in these years shared the same news, tools and prices at the same age.

  • Born after AI, not into it

    ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and image and video generators followed within a year. For Gen Beta there will be no before. Search that answers in sentences, toys that hold conversations and homework help that writes back are the baseline, and the debates about how children should use them are being held while the children are in nappies.

  • The smallest cohort in a long time

    The US total fertility rate fell to about 1.6 births per woman in 2024, the lowest ever recorded, and annual births were around 3.6 million, down from 4.3 million at the 2007 peak. Unless that reverses, Gen Beta will be markedly smaller than Gen Alpha in the United States, with consequences for schools first and for the labour market twenty years later.

  • Children of Gen Z and late Millennials

    The oldest Gen Z turned 28 in 2025 and the youngest Millennials 29, so Gen Beta is the first cohort raised largely by parents who themselves went through adolescence with smartphones. How that generation parents around screens, after growing up as the subject of the screen-time debate, is one of the open questions.

  • The hottest decade on record so far

    2024 was the first calendar year with a global average temperature more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, and 2023 and 2024 were the two warmest years in the instrumental record. Gen Beta is being born into that climate and will live through whatever the century does with it.

  • A name that may not stick

    Millennial replaced Generation Y; Gen Z beat iGen and post-Millennials. Labels win when the press and reference works adopt them, and that has not happened for Beta yet. It is possible the cohort will end up with a different name entirely, or that the range will move. This site will follow the consensus when there is one, and says “emerging label” until then.

  • Will see the twenty-second century

    Someone born in 2025 turns 75 in 2100. Life expectancy at birth in the United States is about 79 years, so a large share of Gen Beta can expect to be alive when the century turns, the first generation on this timeline for which that is true rather than exceptional.

Formative technology and events

Technology that arrived in childhood or early adulthood
  • Generative AI as an ordinary tool: text, image, voice and video
  • AI tutors and conversational toys
  • Screens regulated by rules written in reaction to Gen Z and Alpha
  • Electric vehicles as the default new car in many markets
  • Whatever replaces the smartphone, which they will not remember arriving
Events shared at the same age
  • The first years above 1.5°C of global warming (2024 onward)
  • Record-low US birth rates
  • The mainstreaming of AI in education and work

Where the name comes from

Mark McCrindle, the Australian social researcher who proposed “Generation Alpha” in 2008, extended the sequence with “Generation Beta” for children born from 2025, with a proposed end year of 2039. The logic is that generations run about fifteen years and that the Greek alphabet continues. It is a proposal, widely repeated in the press at the start of 2025 but not adopted by any research body. Pew Research Center has not defined a range. This site follows the common usage of 2025 as the start and marks the label as emerging.

Gen Beta or Gen Alpha? The cusp years

Born 2025 or 2026? Pew’s range puts you in Gen Beta, but you are within 2 years of Gen Alpha’s last year (2024), so sources that draw the line later would call you Gen Alpha. Type your year above and the calculator says which side of the line you fall on and how far from it.

Nothing comes after Gen Beta yet: it is still being born, and everyone in it is early Gen Beta by definition.

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Generation Beta: questions people ask

Is Generation Beta a real generation?
It is a proposed label, not an established one. Mark McCrindle suggested Generation Beta for births from 2025, and the press repeated it, but no research body has adopted it and there is no agreed end year. Whether the name lasts will depend on whether people keep using it as the cohort grows up.
What years does Generation Beta cover?
2025 onward, with 2039 as the proposed end year. This site treats the end as open until there is a consensus, and every result for 2025 or later says “emerging label”.
What generation is someone born in 2025?
Generation Beta, in the emerging usage. It is also the first year after Generation Alpha, so it is a cusp; some sources extend Alpha to 2025, which would make it late Alpha instead. The calculator gives Gen Beta and notes the uncertainty.