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Baby number 7! Who are Elon Musk’s children and what do we know about them? Secretly welcoming his latest child with Grimes, the Tesla founder believes it’s his moral duty to father more kids

Yep, Elon Musk actually has seven children now, and he still wants more. Photos: @elonmusk, @amberheard, @elonmusk/Instagram

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the end of 2021, Elon Musk spoke of his concern for a world where “there are not enough people”, saying he feared that “civilisation is going to crumble” as a result. His answer? Encourage people to have more babies.

To be fair, Musk really does practice what he preaches. The 50-year-old billionaire secretly welcomed yet another child in December 2021, his second child with Grimes, despite the Tesla entrepreneur’s confirmation of their break-up just three months prior, according to Vanity Fair.

In yet another twist, Grimes tweeted on March 11 that the pair had broken up again, but still called him her “best friend and the love of my life”. Does that mean the pair could yet come good on their plan to have “at least three or four children” together? At this point, who knows.

But while we await a possible Grimes-Musk baby No 3, let’s take a look at the entire Musk brood to date.

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Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, four months old

Elon Musk and Grimes have reportedly broken up yet again after welcoming a baby daughter in December 2021. Photo: AP

Newborn baby Exa is Musk’s first daughter. Born via surrogate in December 2021, she’s also being dubbed “Y” inside the family as her older brother, X Æ A-12, goes by “X”.

The name Exa reportedly refers to the term ExaFlops, which is the “ability to perform one quintillion floating-point operations per second”, Grimes explained to Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, her middle name Dark encapsulates “the beautiful mystery of our universe” while Sideræl is just another way of saying “sidereal”, Grimes added, meaning the “true time of the universe, star time, deep space time” and “not our relative Earth time”.

X Æ A-12, 22 months old

Son after son after son – pictured here with X Æ A-12, Elon Musk has fathered six boys to date. Photo: @elonmusk/Instagram
Right after being born on May 4 (Star Wars Day), 2020, “X” became an instant celebrity. Not only as the first child born to Grimes and Musk after their two-year relationship, but for his truly one-off name. Pronounced “X Ash A Twelve”, it refers to X as the unknown variable, and Æ as Grimes’ elven spelling of AI (love in mutliple East Asian languages, and/or artificial intelligence) – we hope you’re keeping up with this. Meanwhile, the A-12 part apparently refers to “Archangel 12”, a CIA programme responsible for creating the SR-71 aeroplane – the couple’s favourite aircraft, she explained in a tweet at the time.

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After the couple semi-separated last September, they were still living together and co-parenting X, according to Page Six. The world’s richest man also fed X and changed his nappies, just like any father.

“Well, babies are just eating and pooping machines, you know? Right now there’s not much I can do. When the kid gets older, there will be more of a role for me,” he told The New York Times.

A candid family photo of Elon Musk and Grimes with their son X Æ A-12. Photo: @elonmusk/Twitter

But despite his young age, it seems that Musk already has designs on X becoming Tesla and SpaceX’s future CEO by allowing him to “attend” a business meeting (from his father’s lap) while Musk talked rockets, as reported in The Independent, and even doing press tours with him (like the on screen interview with Time’s editor in chief for Person of the Year).

Twins Xavier and Griffin, 17, and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai, 16

After the tragedy of losing his first son, Elon Musk was blessed with not one more, but five. Photo: @amberheard/Instagram

After getting married to his first wife, Canadian writer Justine Wilson, Musk welcomed his first son, Nevada, in 2002. Tragically, the boy died from sudden infant death syndrome just 10 weeks later, and the couple were left devastated.

After doing IVF, Wilson was able to give birth to twins Griffin and Xavier in April 2004, and then triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian in January 2006. Custody of all five boys has been split between the pair since they divorced in 2008.

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A young Elon Musk with his twins Griffin and Xavier, whom he had with his first wife, Justine Wilson. Photo: @elonmusk/Instagram

“Custody of our five children is split evenly. Almost all of my non-work waking hours are spent with my boys, and they are the love of my life,” he told Business Insider back in 2010.

Besides taking them to Disney World or going camping, he also travels with them often, according to an interview he gave to The New York Times. “If I have a trip for Tesla to China, for example, I’ll bring the kids with me and we’ll go see the Great Wall or we take the bullet train from Beijing to Xian and see the Terracotta Warriors.”

Elon Musk and his sons sculpting cars for a magazine photo shoot back in 2009. Photo: Handout

Musk has even founded a school for them called Ad Astra, meaning “to the stars” in Latin. The school was started in 2014 for the boys and the children of other SpaceX employees because the entrepreneur didn’t approve of regular school, according to The Washington Post. Focusing on teaching skills to children, it eschews giving students grades and offers subjects like robotics, nuclear politics and AI. Apparently no languages are taught at Ad Astra because Musk believes computer-assisted language translation will be soon widely available.

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  • Grimes recently tweeted that the pair had broken up again, four months after they welcomed daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, but she still called him the ‘love of her life’
  • Musk and Grimes previously said they’d planned to have up to four children together, which would bring his total number of kids to 10