Do you like the name X AE A-XII ?

No, I don’t.

Nickname: AAAAGH!

I believe, from the the previous Q, Jade would have been a better name.

His name is X AE A-XII, but it’s pronounced “Pretentious Dick”.

Sounds like a name that screams, “Bully me!” Did the baby’s mom have any input on this nonsense?

@snowberry And which of his baby mamas would that have been?

Twitter is doomed.

Ugh. That renews my conviction that lax naming laws are not a good idea. The parents’ self-expression should not harm an innocent child.

@snowberry ”[Musk] also mentioned that it was his girlfriend and Canadian singer, Grimes who came up with the name. However, A-12 was his contribution and it stands for Archangel 12, which is an aircraft.

After welcoming her son, Grimes took to Twitter to explain the entire meaning of the name, two days after the baby was born. She wrote, ‘X, the unknown variable. Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence). A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favourite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent + (A=Archangel, my favorite song) (metal rat).’”

Source.

While there is always a part of the parent in the name given to a child, any parent (or in this case more appropriately ‘impregnator’, since ‘parent’ implies an active part in raising a child, which the muskrat does not do), that deems fit to force a name like that on their child, clearly places no value on the child as its own person, or even as a human being.
This is no different than a redneck calling his pickup truck the “libsmasher”, and plastering it with maga stickers and swastikas.

I like XKE better. Not so wordy.

@snowberry Grimes is touted as the mother; however, Musk doesn’t want his women pregnant, so the baby was via a surrogate. Grimes may have helped to name him. Since he was born, Grimes & Musk have separated twice I think it is. That child is going to hate both of them for giving him that awful name!!!

Any ideas what sort of nickname the kid will end up being called?

^^^The best nickname would be “Y”. Pronounced “why?”.

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Here is how it’s pronounced: https://www.siasat.com/x-ae-a-xii-heres-how-to-pronounce-elon-musks-baby-name-2136351/