Why Exa is a sign for "curiosity" in Elon Musk's daughter's name

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Exa, the daughter of Grimes and Elon Musk, is given the symbol for curiosity as her new name.

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The one-year-old goes by "Y now, or 'Why?' or just '?'," the singer tweeted on Thursday.

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Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, acknowledged that the emblem, which stands for "curiosity, the everlasting inquiry,.. and such," "won't be recognized by the government."

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The 35-year-old Canadian musician secretly gave birth to a girl through surrogate in December 2021 and kept the child under.

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After Exa started crying during the interview, she told Vanity Fair, "I don't know what I was thinking" about trying to hide her "colicky" baby's presence.

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The on-again, off-again couple also has a 2-year-old kid. They first "semi-separated" in September 2021.

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After their son was born in May 2020, Grimes and the Twitter CEO altered his name from X AE A-12 to X AE A-XII in order to comply with the law.

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At the time, Grimes clarified via Twitter that AE was the "elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)" and that the initial letter of the unusual moniker stood for "the unknown variable."

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