Elon Musk spoke candidly with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis about the inspiration behind her little-seen twins’ unique names. The tech mogul shared the reasoning in response to a recent photo that sparked curiosity online.
Elon Musk shares the inspiration behind his twins’ names
Elon Musk reveals the inspiration behind the names of his twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. Tesla Owners Silicon Valley shared a photo of Musk with the twins, saying, “Strider Shaker was named after Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings”, explaining that “Strider” is the character’s nickname. He also said that Strider’s middle name, Shekhar, comes from “the great Indian physicist (Subramanian) Chandrasekhar”.
Their daughter Comet Azure got her name from the video game Elden Ring. “Comet Azur is the most powerful magic in the Elden Ring,” Musk explained. In the photo, Musk was seen sitting on his knees with his 4-year-old twins, while one of the children was wearing a SpaceX shirt.
Elon Musk and Zilis also have two other children: daughter Arcadia, born in February 2024, and son Selden, born in February 2025. Musk has not revealed the inspiration behind their names. He has fathered 14 children with different partners.
He and his then-wife Justine Wilson welcomed their first child, Nevada, in 2002, but the infant died shortly after birth. The couple later had twins Griffin and Vivian in 2004, followed by triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian in 2006. Musk has separated from Vivian and once said that he was “killed” by a “woke-mind virus”.
Musk has three children with musician Grimes: son Xa Ae-XII, daughter Axa Dark Siderell, and son Techno Mechanicus. In 2024, political commentator Ashley St. Clair gave birth to Musk’s son, Romulus. he told the new York Times In 2025, Musk said he would offer his sperm to “anyone” and claimed to have fathered a child with a Japanese pop star. Musk has not publicly responded to those claims.
Originally reported by Vriti Johar mandatory.com,