The 27 most unusual rock star baby names, from Audio Science to Zuma
12.03.2022 - 12:07
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Grimes and her on-off boyfriend Elon Musk named their first child X AE A-Xii in 2020, it should come as no surprise that their second has an equally unusual moniker. They were hardly likely to call her Monica. In fact, Grimes - who was born as the somewhat more conventionally-named Claire Elise Boucher - has revealed that her daughter’s name is Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, or ‘Y’ for short.
In a recent Vanity Fair interview, she also explained that the couple rarely uses either name, preferring the nickname “Sailor Mars”. Of course, musicians giving their children unusual or out-there names is nothing new. Here are 27 memorable names that music’s most creative minds have dreamed up for their offspring.
1. Audio ScienceActor Shannyn Sossamon, who starred in 2001’s A Knight’s Tale opposite Heath Ledger, is also an accomplished musician who sang and played drums in indie rock favourites Warpaint from 2004 to 2008. She and boyfriend Dallas Clayton named their son Audio Science, with Sossamon commenting: “We wanted a word not a name, so my boyfriend read through the dictionary three or four times.
We were going to call him Science, but thought it might get shortened to Sci, as in Simon. ”2. Apple When Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and actor Gwyneth Paltrow had a daughter in 2004, they named her Apple.
Paltrow gave Martin credit for the idea, telling Oprah Winfrey that year: “When we were first pregnant, her daddy said, ‘If it’s a girl I think her name should be Apple. ’ It sounded so sweet, and it conjured such a lovely picture for me, you know. Apples are so sweet and they’re wholesome and it’s biblical.