baby boomer

noun

: a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population's birth rate : a person born during a baby boom

especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964)

The viewer is older, an aging baby boomer whose '60s activism has been lost among the years.

—Gary D. Christenson

Industry experts predict that reverse mortgages will play an increasingly important role in the coming years as some 70 million baby boomers hit their 60s—often with a lot less saved than they'd hoped.

—Cybele Weisser

Examples of baby boomer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If the baby boomer had held on, that original stake—not accounting for any stock dilution—would be worth more than $597 billion today. —Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026

Housing will include rentals for the hospital workforce, as well as luxury condominiums to attract baby boomers seeking easy access to health care, an alternative to senior living. —Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026

His customers include older baby boomers and Gen X‑ers nostalgic for the players of their childhood, but most have been millennials like himself, drawn to something tactile and analog in an era when everything else disappears into the digital ether. —Oliver Wang, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026

Thanks to the millions of baby boomers hitting retirement age, powder hounds in their 60s and 70s (and beyond) are an increasingly common sight on the slopes. —Roger Sands, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baby boomer

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