Abstract.We introduce the concept of the generic existence of P-point, Qpoint, and selective ultrafilters, a concept which is somewhat stronger than the existence of these sorts of ultrafilters. We show that selective ultrafilters exist generically iff semiselectives do iff mc = c, and we show that ß-point ultrafilters exist generically iff semi-ß-points do iff mc -d , where d is the minimal cardinality of a dominating family of functions and m is the minimal cardinality of a cover of the real line by nowhere-dense sets. These results complement a result of Ketonen, that P-points exist generically iff c = d , and one of P. Nyikos and D. H. Fremlin, that saturated ultrafilters exist generically iff mc = c = 2 g(n). Following [21] we let d denote the minimum cardinality of a dominating family of functions. We let c be the cardinality a'o) and mc be the minimum cardinality of a cover of the real line consisting of nowhere-dense sets. The notation mc comes from "Martin's Axiom for countable partial orders"; mc is the maximum cardinal X such that the following holds: given any countable partial order P and fewer than X dense subsets of P, there exists a generic G C P which meets each of the dense subsets.