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Meaning behind Grimes and Elon Musk's daughter incredibly unusual name

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Its now known that Elon Musk and Grimes secretly welcomed a baby daughter together, two years after she gave birth to their first child X.The 33 year old popstar announced the news unexpectedly during an interview with Vanity Fair after her youngest was overheard crying.The pair had their daughter via surrogate and they named her Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.

What is the meaning behind the unusual moniker? Let's take a look. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .

The newborn's name in full is Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, which Grimes broke down in her interview with Vanity Fair. Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS which is "the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second".

While Grimes explains Dark as “the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.” Finally, Sideræl— pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”, is “a more elven” spelling of sidereal, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time.” The name is also a nod to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel.

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