Opinions Are Split on Darren Criss’ Unique Choice of Name for Newborn Son
Elon Musk unveiled his and Grimes‘s baby boy named X Æ A-12 on Twitter in May 2020. The couple later adjusted the name to comply with California’s naming regulations, which require only English alphabet characters. They decided to change the name to X Æ A-Xii, using roman numerals.
“X, the unknown variable,” explained Grimes 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 announced the arrival of their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl Musk through a 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”—represents “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” she added, paying tribute to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”