what defines a millennial
Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X.There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.illiam Strauss and Neil Howe projected in their 1991 book Generations that the U.S. Millennial population would be 76 million. Later Neil Howe revised the number to over 95 million people (in the U.S.).