The family
Parents, siblings, and partners
Mother
Maye Musk Model and dietitian whose Canadian citizenship gave Elon his route out of South Africa at 17. Elon and Reeve are names from her family: Elon after her grandfather J. Elon Haldeman, and Reeve the maiden name of her maternal grandmother.
Father
Errol Musk South African engineer and property developer. Elon has described their relationship as complicated.
Brother (younger)
Kimbal Musk Co-founded Zip2 with Elon, co-founded The Kitchen restaurant group, and has served on the boards of Tesla and SpaceX.
Sister (younger)
Tosca Musk Filmmaker and co-founder of Passionflix, a streaming service for romance adaptations.
First wife (married 2000, divorced 2008)
Justine Wilson Canadian author; six children together before their 2008 divorce.
Second and third wife (married 2010, divorced 2012; remarried 2013, divorced 2016)
Talulah Riley British actress; married twice, with divorces finalized in 2012 and 2016.
Partner (relationship began around 2018)
Claire Boucher (Grimes) Canadian musician; three children together, including son X Æ A-Xii, also known as "X."
Partner
Shivon Zilis Neuralink operations leader; four children together.
Mother of a child
Ashley St. Clair Author and commentator; mother of Romulus.
The children
Justine Wilson(6)
2002
Nevada Alexander Musk The first child; died at 10 weeks from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
2004
Griffin Musk Twin, conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
2004
Vivian Jenna Wilson She is Griffin's twin and legally changed her name in 2022.
2006
Kai Musk One of triplets.
2006
Saxon Musk One of triplets.
2006
Damian Musk One of triplets.
Claire Boucher (Grimes)(3)
2020
X Æ A-Xii Musk Known as 'X'; often seen at public events with Elon Musk.
2021
Exa Dark Sideral Musk Born via surrogate; called 'Y' or Exa.
2022
Techno Mechanicus Musk Called 'Tau' or Techno.
Shivon Zilis(4)
2021
Strider Musk Twin with Azure.
2021
Azure Musk Twin with Strider.
2024
Arcadia Musk Daughter.
2025
Seldon Lycurgus Musk Son, announced in 2025.
Ashley St. Clair(1)
2024
Romulus Musk Son.
The grandparents
Maternal grandfather
Joshua Norman Haldeman Maye's father (1902-1974). American-born Canadian chiropractor and aviator who headed Technocracy in Canada, ran for Parliament with Social Credit, and moved the family to South Africa in 1950, where he supported apartheid; he died in a plane crash in Pretoria when Elon was two.
Maternal grandmother
Winnifred Josephine "Wyn" Fletcher Haldeman Maye's mother (1914-2012). Canadian dance teacher, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to English parents; she married Joshua in 1942, had twin daughters Maye and Kaye in 1948, and later told Elon stories of Joshua's flying expeditions, including searches for the Lost City of the Kalahari.
Paternal grandfather
Walter Henry James Musk Errol's father. South African World War II veteran of mostly English-South African background who, family accounts say, served as a cryptographer in a military intelligence unit in Egypt; he married Cora Amelia Robinson in Johannesburg in 1944, and they had Errol and Michael.
Paternal grandmother
Cora Amelia Robinson Errol's mother (1923-2011). Born in Edge Hill, Liverpool, to an English father and a South African mother; she moved to South Africa during World War II.
At a glance
The count. Elon Musk is the father of 14 children (13 living) with four women: Justine Wilson, Grimes, Shivon Zilis, and Ashley St. Clair.
A family split, then a choice. His parents divorced when he was about nine. He chose to live with his father, a decision he later called a mistake.
Why he keeps having children: population collapse. He frames a large family as his answer to what he calls the biggest long-term risk to civilization: falling birth rates.
Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming
Elon Musk (@elonmusk), August 26, 2022
The personal timeline
Personal Life timelineElon Musk's life in 10 moments, from his birth in Pretoria to the SpaceX listing that made him the first trillionaire.Read the timeline →Photo credits
- Maye Musk: Vbrunophotog (WikiPortraits), CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Errol Musk: ЭЙДОС, CC BY 4.0, cropped
- Kimbal Musk: 1000x2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Tosca Musk: Spacexforanewlife, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Initials stand in for family members with no freely licensed photo.
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