GenXers. Are you fed up of being called Boomers?

>The word has been used to describe my mum and dad's generation since before I was born, and I first heard it as a child. How old are you? It wasn't in commonly used in the UK until the 90s. It's extremely unlikely you heard it before 1980s in the UK, and almost certainly not in relation to the post-war generation in the UK. > What is your barometer for this being an Americanism? How about the Oxford English Dictionary for starters? With the exception of "Gen Alpha", *all* these generation/cohort labels were coined in the US, being in wide use there before making their way over to the UK. The etymology has been widely documented. Consult any etymology reference, dictionary, or encyclopedia. The term "baby boomer" was coined (or at least first used in print) by US journalist [Leslie Nason](https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A49527) in a 1963 article in the Daily Press (based in Virginia, USA). This built on the earlier term "baby boom", first recorded used by Sylvia Porter in a 1951 article in the New York Post. The singular term "boomer" was first recorded in 1970 in a Washington Post article. US generation labels did not become widely known in the UK until the 90s, where they were used in international ad campaigns and with increasing influence of American media and marketing, MTV, etc. on UK channels (in particular, targeting the "cool" sounding "gen X"). But it really wasn't until the 2010s that use of these labels became commonplace in the UK. The phrase "ok boomer" and the use of "boomer" as an insult/pejorative, or meaning a luddite, is much more recent, originating on 4chan in 2015. "Generation X" has been used in various ways and meanings for many decades, but it's modern usage and acceptance of being tied to a specific cohort originates with "Class" by American historian and sociologist Paul Fussell Jr, and popularised by the 1991 novel "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Coupland, and influence of other media around that time, e.g. "Generation X" by Billy Idol. I'll leave it to you to look up the etymologies of Gen Y / Millennials, Gen Z... needless to say they're all US. The exception is "Gen Alpha", which was first used in Australia by author/researcher Mark McCrindle.