baby boomlet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An increase in birth rate that occurred when the baby boomers reached childbearing age.
noun
A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.
noun
Any spike in birth rate that is smaller than the baby boom.
Example Sentences
- "The baby boomlet was a period marked by increases in the number of women of childbearing age and increases in fertility rates of those women."
- "Cashing in on the baby boomers' baby boomlet of the '80s and '90s, the children's apparel market saw a significant increase and was among the fastest-growing segments of the overall retail market."
- "We can estimate three separate US generations based on census data as follows: baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), Generations X'ers (born between 1965 and 1976), and the baby boomlet (born between 1977 and 1994) (Edmondson, 1995)."
- "Over a long-term period, population growth would be affected by changing birth rates due to shifts in social values and movement of age cohorts such as baby-boomers and baby-boomlets through the child-bearing years."
- "Baby boomlets (consumers born between 1977 and 1997 and also known as "Gen Y") have emerged as the next cohort since the baby boomers to receive the close attention of retailers (Bounds, 2000)."
- "My fellow baby boomlets also engaged in strong civic engagement."