Editing Baby boomers (section)

==Etymology==
The term [[baby boom]] refers to a noticeable increase in the birth rate. The post-World War II population increase was described as a "boom" by various newspaper reporters, including Sylvia F. Porter in a column in the May 4, 1951, edition of the ''[[New York Post]]'', based on the increase of 2,357,000 in the population of the U.S. from 1940 to 1950.<ref>''Reader's Digest''. August 1951, pg. 5.</ref>

The first recorded use of "baby boomer" is in a January 1963 ''[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press]]'' article by Leslie J. Nason describing a massive surge of college enrollments approaching as the oldest boomers were coming of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/542159/how-generations-named-baby-boomers-generation-x-millennials|title=How Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials Got Their Names|date=May 1, 2018|access-date=September 25, 2018|archive-date=October 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010015756/http://mentalfloss.com/article/542159/how-generations-named-baby-boomers-generation-x-millennials|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Nason |first1=Leslie J. |title=Baby Boomers, Grown Up, Storm Ivy-Covered Walls |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19690752/daily_press/ |access-date=March 28, 2019 |work=Daily Press |date=January 28, 1963 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328230347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19690752/daily_press/ |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |location=Newport, Virginia}}</ref> The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' dates the modern meaning of the term to a January 23, 1970, article in ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=baby boomer |work=Oxford English Dictionary |date=1974}}</ref>