Francesca Farago Reveals Uncommon Baby Names She Adores for Her Pregnancy
Elon Musk and Grimes unveiled their baby boy X Æ A-12 to the public on Twitter in May 2020. They later adjusted the name to comply with California’s naming regulations, which only allow letters from the English alphabet. They decided to change the name to X Æ A-Xii, using roman numerals.
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained on Twitter. “Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.”
Grimes added, “A=Archangel, my favorite song” along with a rat and sword emoji. “Metal rat.”
In March 2022, they revealed the birth of their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl Musk via surrogate.
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she explained. “Dark represents ‘the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.'”
Sideræl—pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—symbolizes “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” she stated, and pays homage to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”