Liam O'Dell
Mar 10, 2022
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk and musician girlfriend Grimes (real name Claire Boucher) have had a second child, it has been revealed, after the singer had to reveal to Vanity Fair that she had a baby daughter.
The news was announced after the child – born by surrogate in December - started crying during Grimes’ interview with the outlet, meaning she was made to explain that it was child number two.
“She’s a little colicky too,” the artist explained, going on to write in a text to the reporter that the child’s full name is Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. It’s Y, for short.
Yes, really.
According to Vanity Fair, Exa refers to the supercomputing word exaFLOPS; Dark is a nod to dark matter; and Sideræl – pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el” – is a stylisation of the word sidereal, another word from the world of physics which concerns “distant stars”.
Our head hurts too.
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Y’s name isn’t the only bizarre name in the family, however, with the pair’s first child – a boy - being named X Æ A-XII.
If you’re somehow wondering how to pronounce that, Grimes pronounces it as “X A.I. Archangel”, apparently.
Yes, they really did make an X and Y chromosome pun with the names. They're real, and we promise that they're not the result of our editor’s cat walking along the keyboard.
And looking at Twitter, it seems others were also taken aback by the unusual choice:
Grimes naming her 2nd babypic.twitter.com/1CxWjIWK9B— Vulture (@Vulture) 1646922689
Grimes and Elon typing in random letters to come up with a baby namepic.twitter.com/Ih1QmjwB8X— Brooklyn (@Brooklyn) 1646923638
This is extremely disruptive to my psychehttps://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1501918613036486657\u00a0\u2026— Kat Tenbarge (@Kat Tenbarge) 1646923964
Im tired just name the baby Jane or something https://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1501918613036486657\u00a0\u2026— cassie\u2019s lawyer (@cassie\u2019s lawyer) 1646922806
Fitting that the nickname is basically "Why"https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1501918613036486657\u00a0\u2026— C\u00e9sar @KIRBY MAI SON (@C\u00e9sar @KIRBY MAI SON) 1646922801
\u201cExa! Exa! Read All About It!: Musk Missus Shows Off Her Art Angel \u2014 and Tells Us How She\u2019s Gone From \u2018Kill v. Maim\u2019 to V. Chill Mom!\u201dhttps://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1501906545029914631\u00a0\u2026— Daniel D'Addario (@Daniel D'Addario) 1646923946
somehow this name is slightly more normal than the first onehttps://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1501906545029914631\u00a0\u2026— kimmy (@kimmy) 1646922239
Baby Exa? Say no more https://twitter.com/pitchfork/status/1501935819233259520\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/dikPo5017c— Raf (@Raf) 1646925034
Can no longer tell if this is a parody.— \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 F\u00dcSSBALLEN MUSO BOT 3000 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 F\u00dcSSBALLEN MUSO BOT 3000 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1646924595
Exa Dark Sider\u00e6l sounds like it could be the name of a SoundCloud rapperhttps://twitter.com/vagrantones/status/1501925432668659724\u00a0\u2026— Trilladel\ud83c\udd7f\ufe0fh Halflife\ud83d\udc10 (@Trilladel\ud83c\udd7f\ufe0fh Halflife\ud83d\udc10) 1646924477
The way this Grimes mess has completely made my morning. I am so energized and invigorated, I feel like I can skip my morning cold brew. (I won\u2019t, of course, but I honestly think I could!)— Exa Dark Sider\u00e6l (@Exa Dark Sider\u00e6l) 1646924518
The same cover story also revealed that Grimes and Musk may be back together in some form, despite it previously being reported in September that the pair broke up.
She told the journalist: “There’s no real word for it. I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid.
“We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time…
“We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.
“We’ve always wanted at least three or four [children],” she said.
So maybe we should expect some more nonsensical baby names in the future.
Our bet is on the next one being called Z.
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