Grimes reveals what his son with Elon Musk calls him. It’s not ‘mom’

When singer Grimes and billionaire businessman Elon Musk welcomed a son in May 2020, his name, X Æ A-Xii, made the headlines. Baby X is only 16 months old, but he’s also making his own way when it comes to creative names.

Her mother says that little X doesn’t call her by some version of “mother”, but by her own first name, “Claire”. Her birth name is Claire Elise Boucher. The musician chose “Grimes” after a British musical genre, grime music, reported The Guardian.

In a Vogue video showing Grimes preparing for Monday’s Met Gala (yes, the one that Nicki Minaj did not attend…), the musician ruminated on motherhood.

“I think having a baby has been a big rebirth for me artistically,” she said. “Being a mother, (that) sounds weird to say. For some reason I don’t identify with that word. Which is also really weird because X, he says’ Claire ‘, but he doesn’t say’ mom ‘… Like, maybe he can sense my loathing for the word “mother”.

When the baby was born, Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said that the name is pronounced X Ash A Twelve, and a video showed him referring to her son as “Baby X”.