Baby Diesel? Little d'Artagnan? There is another child of Musk in the world

Smoke was seen beneath Elon Musk's mighty Starship prototype overnight as he and his partner, musician Claire Boucher, celebrated the birth of their first child together. Naturally, El Reg is pondering a name for the offspring. While his rocketry, tunnelling and battery-powered antics frequent our pages with varying levels of …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Names are so 20th century

Just number the little release - I'm betting on '420'

[GloriousVictoryForThePeople]

Re: Names are so 20th century

790 would have a more canadian and space vibe

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Names are so 20th century

I was joking - have you seen what the idiot actually chose ? Oh FFS !

[Anonymous Coward]

Dave

[Fungus Bob]

Dave's not here...

[DCFusor]

Joule or Max(well) seem appropriate.

[SJA]

Hal?

How about Hal?

[Captain Scarlet]

Re: Hal?

HAL wants to murder people, I recommend SID (Just don't drop your identify disc!).

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: Hal?

Whats Space Intruder Detector got to do with it!

[Captain Scarlet]

Re: Hal?

Damn your humans acronymns!

It stands for "Speech Intelligence Decoder" and was active on Lunarville 7 until it was shot multiple times.

[MJI]

From his companies - Nikola?

From characters played by actors from her country - Tiberius

His favourite films - Luke, Han, Obiwan

Reading - Hari

[J27]

I think Edsel is a great name.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nappy Rash (gcu)

[no one cares]

Another Musky scent

How big is the kid's nose? Cyrano is an option.

[GrahamRJ]

Follow the naming convention for landing-pad ships

... and use the names of Ian M Banks "Culture" ships. I would particularly suggest:-

Little Rascal

Youthful Indiscretion

Sweet and Full of Grace

Although given the number of other kids he has, perhaps:-

Someone Else's Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

SN7

Seems to be his current naming convention.

[Anonymous Coward]

Valentine Michael Smith

*** For those who don't grok the allusion

[vincer]

- Brad(bury)

- Phobos or Deimos

- Level 5

- Giga

[sorry, what?]

Well, it's obvious to any bloke who ever had to buy smellies for their better half...

White.

'nuf said.

[Uncle Slacky]

X Æ A-12

That's the official name - not sure how to pronounce it though.

[Arthur the cat]

Re: X Æ A-12

That's the official name - not sure how to pronounce it though.

"Fred"

[Uncle Slacky]

Re: X Æ A-12

"Chumley"

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

Re: X Æ A-12

"Chumley"

Cholmondeley

FTFY

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Re: X Æ A-12

Raymond Luxury Yacht

[aizuchi0]

Re: X Æ A-12

"That's not my name!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: X Æ A-12

This article tries to get a sensible answer to that conundrum.

[Alan Sharkey]

Re: X Æ A-12

I shall have a rant here.

As the child grows up, he (or she) needs a "normal" name for the society in which they live. Anything outside the 'norm' and they get teased incessantly - because that is what children do. So, giving a child a name like this one is not nice for the child and only reflects the parents ego.

rant over.

Alan

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: X Æ A-12

Might as well just call him "UTF-8 encoding error".

[D@v3]

Re: X Æ A-12

Or

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: X Æ A-12

"[...] he (or she) needs a "normal" name for the society in which they live. "

Back in the 1960s a couple were getting married. When the vicar said their names there was much confusion in the congregation. The bride had always been known by her middle name - rather than her longer first name with a French accenting. The groom had been christened William Henry - and was always known as "John".

A Polish woman living in England named her son Christopher with an English spelling - for which there was a phonetically identical Polish name. She also gave him a middle name that was phonetically his English father's name - but with the Polish spelling. The husband was totally confused when he had to spell it on official forms.

[Chris G]

Re: X Æ A-12

That reminds me of an earlier thought, if it's a boy Sue and if it's a girl Ghengis; they'll develop character as they grow.

[Fungus Bob]

Re: normal name

Dweezil and Moon Unit survived...

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: X Æ A-12

Æ - "Ash"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86

Æ also reminds me of the bonnet ornament on the old Austin Cambridge

Lockheed A-12

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: X Æ A-12

The coordinates for the location of a treasure or where the child was conceived.

The crossroads on the A12 under an Ash tree.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Han

Pilot of the Falcon

[Vulch]

If he'd read the script

As a billionaire heavily invested in space he ought to be calling this one Walter or Donald as he'd already have used Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John and Alan.

[Fungus Bob]

From a previous Reg article:

"Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

Now *that's* a name...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: From a previous Reg article:

>Now *that's* a name...

More of a linkedin profile

[Anonymous Coward]

Baby names

Arsehole Jr.

[Anonymous Coward]

Model G

Since he's the seventh.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Iain, in honor of you know who . . .

[Chris G]

Might I suggest Bergholt after a former inventor of a pneumatic transit tube?

Nominative determinism and all that.

[Dr. G. Freeman]

Dad's Elon G. Musk

so kids' name is Elonger Musk

Grandkid could be Elonger Still, or Elongest Musk.

[Anonymous Coward]

> Dad's Elon G. Musk

Does the G stand for 'Gate'?

[Anonymous Coward]

Baby Mc Baby Face

it's right there...

[flat wrong]

Icarus

[anthonyhegedus]

What a complete cockwomble

Would you buy a car from a company where the CEO is this unhinged? He's a clown.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: What a complete cockwomble

Would you buy any car made in the USA?

[Spanners]

Formula for distance covered

How about naming him after a good old O Level physics formula?

The formula for distance travelled is S=UT + 0.5AT^2

In name form - Seutphatt

In US pronunciation - Sootfat

[amess]

Musky McMuskface

[John Brown (no body)]

Ox

For when the register is called at school.

Teacher: Musk, Ox

Kid: <sighs>Here sir.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Confirmation by @Grimezsz

Quote:

•X, the unknown variable ⚔️

•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)

•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent

+ (A=Archangel, my favorite song) (⚔️metal rat)

5:54 pm - 5 May 2020

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1257925244733452290?p=v