So back in 2008 they came up with GenAlpha for the successors to GenZ. The name Generation Alpha originated from a 2008 survey conducted by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term.[8][9] McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in a 2015 interview: 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.[10] 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 to zeta.[9] _____________________________________________________________________ There is no consensus yet on the birth years of Generation Alpha. McCrindle, who coined the term, uses 2010–2024[23] and some other sources have followed suit,[24][25] sometimes with minor variations like 2010–2025[26] or 2011–2025.[4] Some others have used shorter ranges, such as 2011–2021[27] or 2013–2021.[28] According to Wikipedia the proposed name for those born post 2025 is Generation Beta or GenB for short. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha Uh-uh. That's weak. They need to add just one letter to GenA. This new generation should be christened... "GenAI"... there couldn't be a more appropriate name. Think about it. It's true. Remember where you heard it first. ~©vz 8/12/25
Then again... perhaps GenBeta is deeper than I thought. Isn't that what they call a new version of software in it's testing stage? That certainly applies too if you think about it. GenAi-(Beta).