Grimes and Elon Musk welcomed baby ‘ X Æ A-12’ to the world – 17 favourite responses

As you will no doubt have seen by now, Grimes and Elon Musk have had a baby.

Mom & baby all good

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2020

And as you also won’t have missed, Musk said they’d given the little lad a slightly unusual name.

X Æ A-12 Musk

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2020

Chances are he’ll end up with something different (who knows?) but it did prompt lots of very good jokes on Twitter. Here are our favourites.

1.

https://twitter.com/edenmp4/status/1257573760540033025?s=20

2.

“Name please”
“X Æ A-12”
“Sorry didn’t catch that”
“X Æ”
“X A”
“No, X Æ”
“X E”
“No, Æ as in the ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae then A-12 like the A-road -”
“I’m just going to write your parents were cunts” https://t.co/5OyOKPuwlR

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 5, 2020

3.

https://twitter.com/fake_jaris/status/1257686458128875526?s=20

4.

elon musk really named his child after the wifi password

— randy (@randypaint) May 5, 2020

5.

The moment you learn your dad named you X Æ A-12 pic.twitter.com/vSAkYMMJvb

— Fandom (@getFANDOM) May 5, 2020

6.

A stark reminder that the name ‘Bernard’ has gone out of fashion for newborns. https://t.co/u9RbefHbbx

— rab livingstone (@rablivingstone) May 5, 2020

7.

Elon Musk and Grimes’s son in the nursery pic.twitter.com/1Bj9Nf9rPr

— Macks (@maxholcomb0) May 5, 2020

8.

Elon Musk introducing his kids pic.twitter.com/4OI26pxkrr

— Screen Junkies (@screenjunkies) May 5, 2020

9.

Barista: Name?

Elon Musk’s son: X Æ A-12

Barista: Out. Get out. Get the fuck out right now.

— Josh Hara (@yoyoha) May 5, 2020