Just when you think things couldn’t get weirder, Grimes and Elon Musk just renamed their daughter’s name
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Grimes described Sideræl as the ‘more elven’ spelling of ‘sidereal’. Picture: @grimes/Instagram
Grimes and Elon Musk were stopped from renaming their daughter ?.
The couple welcomed Exa Dark Sideræl Musk into the world via surrogate in December, 2021 but the 35-year-old singer has revealed they have now changed the tot’s name to Y or Why, because they were not allowed to use the question mark symbol.
After sharing side-by-side photos of herself and her daughter in matching red outfits, Grimes responded to one fan’s comment on the tot and tweeted: “She’s Y now or ”Why?“ or just “?” (But the government won’t recognise that). Curiosity, the eternal question… and such. (sic)“
The “Genesis” singer – who also has a 2-year-old son X Æ A-Xii, with Musk– previously explained her daughter’s unique name by describing how Exa refers to a supercomputing term, exaFLOPS, while Dark Universe represents “the unknown”.
She told Vanity Fair magazine: “People fear it, but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.”
Grimes described Sideræl as the “more elven” spelling of “sidereal” – which she defined as “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time”.
The name is also a nod to the star’s favourite “Lord of the Rings” character, Galadriel.
Shortly after the article was published, Grimes – whose real name is Claire Boucher – admitted she expected to change her daughter’s name.
She tweeted: “2 clarify a few things; I did this to speak abt my work, not ‘reveal all’ haha. Def held back a lot, contrary 2 headline. And didn’t mean for them 2 find out about my daughter, so please respect her privacy as I’d love her to be able to live as private a life as possible (sic).”
When a follower asked about her daughter’s name, she replied: “This will most definitely change btw haha, but it won’t be for public. (sic)”