Elon Musk does nothing like the others. He notably gave a curious name to one of his children, who has nothing to envy to R2D2.
Patron of Space X, Tesla and X, Elon Musk is also the father of twelve children, born from three different mothers. According to relatives interviewed by Business Insider,, The multimillionaire would have been fixed for several years the desire that the most intelligent people repopulate the planet with their offspring. He would encourage his rich friends to do the same, convinced that wealth is directly linked to IQ. “One of the greatest risks for civilization is the low birth rate … If people have no more children, civilization will collapse,” he explained, in 2021, during a Wall Street Journal forum.
This effigy of the “pronatalist” movement in the United States still maintains conflictual relations with some of his children, including his daughter Transgender Vivian Wilson. “My son was killed by WOKE culture,” he said about him in an interview with the information site The Daily Wire.
But the media craze around his family culminated at the birth of his sixth child on May 4, 2020. And for good reason: the newborn, named “X æ A-12”, was endowed with an original first name. Later, the parents were still forced – after a court decision – to rename him “X æ a -xii”, because the Californian law prohibits the use of figures in a first name.
If many believed in a joke at the time, the parents were completely serious when choosing this acronym. The former companion of the billionaire, the singer Claire Boucher – also known as Grimes – has also revealed, in stride, the meaning of this strange symbol. “X, the unknown variable, æ, that I pronounce” Ai “for artificial love or intelligence, A-12 which is the precursor of SR-17 (our favorite plane), no weapon or defense, just speed. Strong in combat but not violent. A also means” Archangel “, my favorite song”, she wrote on her Twitter account.
And if – like the parents of the toddler nicknamed “Lil X” – the desire takes you to compose the first name of your future child, you may however be disappointed. In France, since The law of January 8, 1993parents are free to choose an already used first name or create a new one, as long as it does not harm the child’s interest.
“The first name, alone or associated with the family name, should not be contrary to the interest of the child,” said the public service websitewhich specifies that one should not give “ridiculous or rude name”. You are therefore likely to be found by French justice if you want to name your new born Nutella, Titeuf, Mini-Cooper, Griezmann-Mbappé, Ikea or Lucifer.
Regarding the writing of first names, “the alphabet used must be that which is used for writing French”, which means that alphabetical characters not used in the French language like the “ñ” are not allowed, nor the figures or special characters!