Forgot password
Enter the email address you used when you joined and we'll send you instructions to reset your password.
If you used Apple or Google to create your account, this process will create a password for your existing account.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Reset password instructions sent. If you have an account with us, you will receive an email within a few minutes.
Something went wrong. Try again or contact support if the problem persists.
Elon Musk with Twitter employees
Image via Twitter

How many children does Elon Musk have? Full list of all Elon Musk’s kids

The man could give Nick Cannon a run for his money.

Elon Musk has seen his reputation fluctuate massively in recent years. Just a half-decade back, he was looked on as a successful businessman juggling dozens of responsibilities at multiple companies, but these days he’s best known as the biggest disinformation sower on his far-right vacuum of choice, X, a company he also owns.

Recommended Videos

These days, Musk is frequently looked on as a manic and unsettlingly brash billionaire with far, far too much power at his disposal. That same wealth and influence has served the 53-year-old well in the world of love, securing him with several different wives, a small handful of occasional girlfriends and partners, and a full dozen little ones, welcomed into the world over the last few decades.

Who are Elon Musk’s kids?

Elon musk carrying his son
Image via Twitter

Over the years, Musk has welcomed a whopping 12 children into the world — and those are just the ones we know about. Rumors of more, unclaimed children run rampant in online communities, but without confirmation we only know of the first dozen, fathered by three separate women.

The first of these women was Justine Wilson, Musk’s first wife. The pair married in 2ooo, and two years later they were welcoming their first child. Nevada Alexander Musk was born in 2002, but unfortunately was not long for this world. The very first Musk child passed away at only 10 weeks old from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a tragedy that urged Musk and Wilson to pursue IVF for their following children.

That decision ultimately led the Musk family to expand rapidly — Wilson and Musk welcomed their next children, twins Griffin and Vivian, in April of 2004, and later a set of triplets. In June of 2022, Vivian came out as transgender, and filed a request to change her first name and take the last name of her mom. She no longer associates with her father, and online has called him “cold,” “quick to anger” and “uncaring and narcissistic.”

The triplets, Kai, Saxon, and Damian, were born two years later, in January of 2006. They are the last kids Musk and Wilson share, and a few years after they were born — in 2008 — the pair divorced.

Musk didn’t have his next batch of kids for years. He did remarry, however, but he and  Talulah Riley’s relationship was never anything but messy. They never had kids, but they did get divorced, then remarried, then divorced again, all between 2012 and 2016.

Then, in 2018, claims that Musk was dating a new flame — singer Grimes — arose. That was soon confirmed by the pair, and by May of 2018 they were welcoming their first child — the bafflingly named X AE A-XII — into the world. Musk initially wanted to name his seventh child “X Æ A-12,” but several of the name’s inclusions violated California law, as they are not part of the English alphabet.

A few years later, in December of 2021, Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child, Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate. By then, the pair’s relationship was notoriously rocky, but that didn’t stop them from welcoming yet another child, Techno Mechanicus (yes that’s the real name) a few years later.

In the midst of growing his family with Grimes, Musk was also fathering children with his subordinate and Neuralink director of operations and special projects, Shivon Zillis. Their twin children, who remain far from the public eye, were born one month before Exa Dark Sideræl, in November of 2021. They also share another child, this one born by surrogate, who was born in early 2024.


We Got This Covered is supported by our audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Learn more about our Affiliate Policy
Author
Image of Nahila Bonfiglio
Nahila Bonfiglio
Nahila carefully obsesses over all things geekdom and gaming, bringing her embarrassingly expansive expertise to the team at We Got This Covered. She is a Staff Writer and occasional Editor with a focus on comics, video games, and most importantly 'Lord of the Rings,' putting her Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin to good use. Her work has been featured alongside the greats at NPR, the Daily Dot, and Nautilus Magazine.