Recently, the singer Grimes and her current partner Elon Musk have become parents. Although this event made news as Musk is one of the richest men in the world, the most surprising thing about her is the name that this couple has given her newborn son.
Upon hearing the news that Musk and Grimes were going to be parents, many Internet users began to talk about what they were going to name their son since they are both very extravagant people. Although many names were mentioned on social networks, none came close to the baby’s real name: X Æ A-12.
If on the one hand the name is already complicated if we want to write it, the big problem comes when we want to pronounce it. In an interview that Elon Musk had on the radio show The Joe Rogan Experience, the famous businessman said that the name of his newborn son is pronounced literally as it is read. This means that based on English, X Æ A-12 is pronounced /eks/ /ash/ /ei/ /twelv/. However, based on its meaning, the name of the son of Elon Musk and Grimes would be pronounced ‘Ix Ash Archangel’.
The meaning of the name X Æ A-12
Another of the great doubts surrounding the name of Elon Musk’s last son is its meaning. Although when reading it we see that it is the strangest, each of its letters has a specific meaning.
X: The X refers to one of Elon Musk’s most important companies: SpaceX. According to Grimes, it also has to do with being the unknown mathematical variable.
Æ: This letter is related to the way “AI” is written in Elvish. This word means artificial intelligence in English and love in Japanese.
A-12: This combination comes from the name of a plane from the 60s, also known as the Archangel, and which was the precursor to the SR-71 Blackbird, the couple’s favorite.
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