Billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s sizeable brood revealed
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk has put his money where his mouth is when it comes to his belief that civilisation will “crumble” without more people.
Elon Musk is the billionaire businessman changing the world with SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter.
But when he’s not putting his genius to good use in the tech space, Musk has his hands busy with his seven children.
Who are Elon Musk’s children?
Elon Musk’s growing brood may be because he loves kids – or because he feels civilisation will “crumble” without more humans.
He said: “There are not enough people, I can’t emphasise this enough. There are not enough people, The Sun reported.
“If people don’t have more children, civilisation is going to crumble. Mark my words.”
And he’s practising what he preaches with a growing brood of his own.
Elon Musk has had eight children – but sadly, one of them passed away.
Here’s what we know about Musk’s offspring.
Nevada Alexander Musk
Musk’s first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, was born in 2002, two years after he married Canadian author Justine Wilson in 2000.
Sadly, he died at just 10 weeks old of sudden infant death syndrome.
Twins – Griffin and Xavier Musk
In 2004, Musk and then-wife Justine welcomed twins Griffin and Xavier with some help from IVF.
Mr Musk’s transgender daughter, who was named Xavier Alexander Musk at birth, turned 18 in April and intends to change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, TMZ reports.
Wilson is the surname of Vivian’s mother and Mr Musk’s ex-wife Justine, who was married to him from 2000 to 2008.
The change is partly, but not entirely, to conform to her gender identity. The legal documents, filed with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County, include a section requiring her to give a “reason for name change”.
“Gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she explains.
A hearing on Vivian’s request is scheduled to take place on Friday.
Triplets – Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk
The former couple’s triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk were born in 2006.
They too were conceived through IVF and custody is shared between the two parents, after they divorced in 2008.
Musk has never spoken publicly about his life with his sons.
In a previous interview, Wilson said: “Almost all of my non-work waking hours are spent with my boys, and they are the love of my life.”
X Æ A-Xii
On May 5, 2020, Musk and his former partner Grimes announced the arrival of their little boy.
The pair initially named their newborn child X Æ A-12.
The name appeared to be partially inspired by one of the songs from 33-year-old Grimes’ last album – 4ÆM.
Unfortunately for the couple, the name was not in accordance with Californian state law, as the law prohibits Indo-Arabic numerals in names.
Musk and Grimes had to change it to X AE A-XII to remove the Æ and 12 so that his birth certificate would comply with California law.
In an interview for Joe Rogan’s podcast at the time, Musk revealed the pronunciation of his son’s name.
He told Rogan that it is pronounced X-Ash-A-Twelve.
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk
In March 2022, Musk welcomed his second child with the pop star Grimes.
She accidentally announced the couple’s baby news in an interview with Vanity Fair.
She attempted to hide her daughter’s birth from the public, but the secret was revealed when a baby was heard crying upstairs during the interview.
Exa Dark Sideræl is known as Y and joins older brother X Æ A-12, who is similarly referred to as X.
Grimes and Musk named their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl because Exa comes from the computing term exaFlops, according to Vanity Fair.
The middle part of the name, Dark, refers to the beautiful unknown mystery of dark matter in the universe.
And Sideræl, pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el” is “a more elven” take on the word sidereal which means star or deep space time, an alternative to earth time.
Grimes explained that the name means: “The true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time.”
It is also a nod to Grimes’ favourite character Galadriel, from Lord Of The Rings.
Musk and Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, started dating in 2018 and made their debut at the Met Gala in May 2018.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
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