Who are Elon Musk's 11 children?

Elon Musk is a tech entrepreneur, space pioneer, one-time “Saturday Night Live” host and controversial figure.

Musk wears many different hats, and in addition to the above, he’s also a father of 11 children that he's had with three different women.

The X owner shares three kids with the musician Grimes, twins with tech executive Shivon Zilis and five children, a set of twins and triplets, with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson.

“He believes that people should have many more children,” author Walter Isaacson, who published both a biography and Time magazine cover story about Musk in September 2023, said while appearing on TODAY Sept. 11, 2023. Isaacson added that Musk "wants to have a lot of children.”

Here’s a look at all of Musk’s children.

Strider and Azure

Musk shares twins Strider and Azure with Zilis, 38, an AI specialist and executive at Neuralink, a company that Musk co-founded. Isaacson describes Zilis in his Time cover story as Musk's "intellectual companion on artificial intelligence since the founding of OpenAI eight years earlier."

Isaacson also revealed in the Time cover story the names of the twins, who were born in November 2021, and shared a photo of them.

On Sept. 8, 2023, Zilis shared an adorable video on X of her twins running around, with one of them yelling, “I love you.”

X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno

Grimes and Musk had a son in May 2020. Originally named X Æ A-12, the child, whom they call X, had to have his name officially changed to X Æ A-Xii in order to be in line with California laws about birth certificates.

The child’s name is pronounced “X Ash A Twelve,” Musk said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast shortly after his birth.

“First of all, my partner’s the one that mostly came up with the name,” he said. “It’s just X, the letter X, and then the ‘Æ’ is pronounced, ‘Ash,’ and then, ‘A-12’ is my contribution.”

He and Grimes split in September 2021, only to get back together.

Elon Musk and singer Grimes welcomed a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideræl with the help of a surrogate in December 2021. Grimes, whose birth name is Claire Elise Boucher, told Vanity Fair in a March 2022 feature that the baby’s name is pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el,” but nicknamed Y.

“There’s no real word for it,” she shared with the outlet when asked about her relationship status with Musk at the time. “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. ... We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.”

She also said she and Musk hoped to have more kids.

“We’ve always wanted at least three or four,” she told Vanity Fair.

On March 10, 2022, after the article was released, Grimes tweeted that she and Musk had broken up, again.

In September 2023, a New York Times review of Isaacson’s Musk biography revealed that Musk and Grimes had welcomed a third child, Techno. Grimes also mentioned Techno in a lengthy X post, writing, in part, “I wish I could show u how cute little Techno is but my priority rn is keeping my babies out of the public eye.”

Adding, “Plz respect that at this time.”

In September 2023, Grimes filed a court petition to establish parental rights after they broke up.

Griffin, Vivian and Nevada

The business mogul and his first wife, Wilson, share twins Griffin and Vivian, born in 2004. The birth of their twins came after the couple had a son named Nevada in 2002 who died from sudden infant death syndrome.

“My firstborn son died in my arms,” Musk wrote in an email exchange reported by Business Insider India in February 2022. “I felt his heartbeat.”

Kai, Saxon and Damian

After having twins, Musk and Wilson had triplets — all boys — in 2006. Musk and Wilson divorced in 2008.

Following his divorce from Wilson, he married actor Talulah Riley in 2010. They divorced in 2012, married again in 2013, then divorced a second time in 2016.

CORRECTIONS (April 27, 2024, 4:13 p.m.): A previous version of this story misspelled Talulah Riley's first name. It has been corrected. Also, a previous version of this story stated that Musk and Grimes’ son, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2021, and their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, was born in December 2020. X was born in May 2020, and Exa was born in December 2021. Additionally, a previous version of this story stated that Grimes filed a court petition to establish parental rights in October 2023. She filed the court petition in September 2023.

This article was originally published on TODAY.com