You beat me to it. My alternate suggestions would be Melon, Rat, or Ellunge.
It’s like someone’s making me choose my character in Street Fighter.
I’d bet the kid has a perfectly normal name. It’s a publicity stunt.
Can I just say that a couple of the previous names are actual names. Griffin, Damian and Xavier are all real names (although spelling may differ). I also have to give Nevada a pass because it was my Great-Great Aunt Veda’s actual name (what can I say, she was the seventh child, they had just traveled from New York to Carson City and I think they ran out of names).
OMG, The first thing I thought of was the CIA version of the SR-71.
It never occurred to me a billionaire nerd would name his child after it.
For some reason the picture in the article explained it all.
Elon still isn’t the worst parent in his immediate family. That would be his dad, Errol, who recently had a child at the age of seventy-two. With a woman who was thirty.
Well, that’s a little creepy, you’re thinking. But not too horrible.
The woman is his stepdaughter.
Errol wins the Woody Allen award.
~VOW
Prince did say one time that the symbol was pronounced “Christopher.” Makes sense to me.
I also got walloped on another board for quoting Beavis and Butthead’s statement that the symbol looks like something you would put on a bathroom door for people who aren’t sure if they are men or women. Turned out there were a couple such people on this board. :smack: I womaned up and apologized.
David Bowie’s son, Zowie, also legally changed his name to Joseph when he was old enough to do so.
BTW, Musk’s older children are a set of twins, and a set of triplets, all from the same mother.
They could have named him “Sparky”.
Not what Wikipedia says. That gives him as ‘Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones’, as both current and birth name, because David Bowie wasn’t an idiot and used the silly name as a middle name, where it can be easily ignored. Duncan was referred to by his middle name as a kid, then decided to go by ‘Joey’ or ‘Joe’ in his teens, but dropped that still in his teens, and now uses his first name.
Not a bad idea, really, basically giving the baby a stage name, which they can keep or drop as required. A concept I’m sure David Jones was pretty familiar with.
Musk is an ignorant moron. “Ash” is the *name *of the letter Æ, not how you pronounce it.
Grimes is closer, although there’s nothing elven about it, so she’s still an idiot.
People keep trying to get me into Grimes. Musically, she’s just up my alley, but something about her in interviews always put me off, so I never got into her stuff. Then she started dating Musk, and it clicked. She’s clearly a fucking idiot, and I don’t generally listen to music produced by idiots.
I always thought of him as "The Artist currently known as ‘The Artist formerly known as Prince’ ", but then he became "The Artist formerly known as ‘The Artist formerly known as Prince’ " and I decided he wasn’t worth the effort.
At least he didn’t name him Hyperloop.
I would have preferred if he’d just named the kid “Strong.” Nice solid name.
In the news today (May 9) he’s threatening to pack up his toys and move his entire Tesla plant to Texas and/or Nevada. Maybe he can register kiddo’s name in one of those places.
A couple? They are all real, non-nonce names.
“Grime” is a genre of awesome British music.
Somebody suggested to me a reason why ultra-rich douchebags give their kids weird names:
They cannot conceive of the concept that their kid will ever have to put his name on a job application and act politely at an interview.
What do you mean by “weird”, though? “Vegetable” would be a poor choice of kid’s name. On the other hand, if I introduced myself at an interview as Hatshepsut, Heftzibah, or Yiguang, I guarantee you would remember my name, which seems like a good thing.
Elon Musk has a fairly good, if strange, sense of humour. If it wasn’t clear that this was a joke and plot for more media attention, the fact his wife disagrees on the pronounciation should settle it. OTOH, I would have thought the Cybertruck was half a joke as well. Maybe time to lay off the weed? At least the baby isn’t called “Hot Pockets” or something.
actually I like this one better