Grimes has shared that she changed the name of her daughter she shares with tech billionaire Elon Musk to a question on Thursday.
The 35-year-old musician – who branded the Grammy Awards as ‘irrelevant’ last month’ – revealed on Twitter that her youngest child is now being called either Y, Why, or ?.
The Genesis singer- whose real name is Claire – posted a side-by-side of her and her daughter, twinning in red. She wrote on the tweet ‘Y C’ with a dragon emoji in the middle, which prompted fans to inquire about the child’s name.
Her one-year-old daughter was previously named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, but the Canada native decided to switch it up.
She explained in an interview with Vanity Fair in April of last year what her daughter’s original name means.
Mom stuff: Grimes has shared that she changed the name of her daughter to a question
Quick name change: The 35-year-old musician revealed that her youngest child is now being called either Y, Why, or ?
In the profile, she shared that Exa was called Y for short but has now deemed it her new name.
Exa refers to the computing term exaFLOPS. Dark means ‘the unknown. People fear it, but truly, it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.’
Grimes added that Sideræl means the true time of the universe, star time, deep space-time, not our relative earth time.’
One fan replied to her recent tweet and said: ‘omg baby sailor mars hiiii,’ to which the beauty responded to the fan sharing her daughter’s updated moniker.
‘She’s Y now, or “Why?” or just “?” (But the government won’t recognize that),’ she wrote.
Grimes then explained that the child’s name is meant to represent ‘curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such.’
She and the Tesla CEO are also parents to 2-year-old X Æ A-12, nicknamed X, whose name was later tweaked to X Æ A-Xii because California law forbids the use of numbers in a legal name.
The couple originally disagreed on how the child’s name should be pronounced, with Grimes taking to her Instagram to explain. ‘It’s just X, like the letter X. Then A.I. Like how you said the letter A then I,’ she shared.
Former couple: She shares her daughter and a son with tech billionaire Elon Musk; the pair seen at The Met Gala in 2018
Setting the record straight: The beauty wrote on the tweet ‘Y C’ with a dragon emoji in the middle, which prompted fans to inquire about the child’s name
Former family of three: Grimes then explained that the child’s name is meant to represent ‘curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such’
Keeping it unique: The couple also share a two-year-old son X Æ A-12, nicknamed X
Couple stuff: Elon and Grimes originally disagreed on the pronunciation of their son’s name; seen at the 2018 Space X Hyperloop Pod Competition
However, Musk told podcast host Joe Rogan a different pronunciation of the name. ‘First of all, my partner is the one that actually, mostly, came up with the name. Yeah, she’s great at names.’
Rogan then asked how to say it, to which Musk responded: ‘I mean it’s just X, the letter X. And then, the Æ is, like, pronounced “Ash”… and then, A-12, A-12 is my contribution.’
Elon has eight other children – 19-year-old twins Griffin and Xavier and 17-year-old triplets Damian, Saxon, and Kai – from a previous marriage with Justine Wilson.
They also previously welcomed a son named Nevada Alexander Musk in 2002 but they died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) after only 10 weeks.
More recently he welcomed twins with Neuralink director of operations and special projects Shivon Zilis in November 2021 before the arrival of his second child with Grimes.
He and Grimes started dating publicly in May 2018 but experienced an on-again, off-again relationship until they finally split after the birth of their daughter in March 2022.
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