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Generation Alpha en · NOUN

Etymology

Originated from a survey conducted in 2008 by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in an interview in 2015: When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old. McCrindle Research also took inspiration from the naming of hurricanes, specifically the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in which the names beginning with the letters of the Latin alphabet were exhausted, and the last six storms were named with the Greek letters alpha through zeta.

Meanings

  1. A member of Generation Alpha.
    • Though the increased access to information afforded by technology is causing many Generation Alphas to experience up-ageing, it’s important to remember that they are still children. 2021, Mark McCrindle, Ashley Fell, Sam Buckerfield, Generation Alpha: Understanding Our Children and Helping Them Thrive, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
    • According to one Coventry student, Denny Julian Deemin, Generation Zs (born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s) will still want their own cars but Generation Alphas (born since 2005) will want a simpler lifestyle without the bother of ownership. 2019, Jon Bentley, Autopia: The Future of Cars, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
    • In the schoolyard, these Generation Zs are role models to Generation Alphas in a way schools haven’t seen before. 2022, Madonna King, L Platers: How to Support Your Teen Daughter on the Road to Adulthood, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

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Synonyms

Alpha · Gen Alpha

wikipedia: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season

Generation Alpha en · PROPN

Etymology

Originated from a survey conducted in 2008 by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in an interview in 2015: When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old. McCrindle Research also took inspiration from the naming of hurricanes, specifically the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in which the names beginning with the letters of the Latin alphabet were exhausted, and the last six storms were named with the Greek letters alpha through zeta.

Meanings

  1. The generation following Generation Z, born between the early to mid-2010s and the mid to late-2020s.
    • Generation Alpha members will be the most diverse of all the generations. In 2011, Generation Alpha reached a demographic milestone: there were more Generation Alpha babies born to minority families than white families in the United States […] 2016, Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy, The Future Workplace Experience, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 160:

Synonyms

Gen Alpha

wikipedia: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season