Elon Musk welcomes twins to his large family, says he is doing his 'best' to save the world from population collapse

A day after the news of twins broke, Elon Musk shared his side of the story. The tech billionaire has shown support for large families and said he is doing his best to save the world from population collapse.

In his tweet, the world's richest man helping the world from underpopulation crisis. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. Mark my words, they are sadly true," he added.


On Thursday, the court documents revealed that Musk secretly had twins with his brain-chip startup Neuralink's senior executive Shivon Zilis in November 2021. The twins came weeks before he welcomed his second child with his former girlfriend Grimes in December same year.

According to the court documents, Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April to change the twins' names to "have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name", the Business Insider reported.

He went on to drop a random message on Twitter which read, "I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!"


On the microblogging platform, the SpaceX CEO also wrote that the "population of Mars is still zero people". Musk has a life-long dream of establishing a human presence on Earth's neighbouring planet.


With over 100 million followers, Musk is known to keep his fan base happy by regularly replying to their questions and tweets. When a user expressed worry about the 'overpopulated' world, the richest man said that it is an illusion people have and the birth rate trends suggest that the world is headed to population collapse.


Besides the twins, Musk is already father to eight other children - Exa Dark Sideræl, X Æ A-Xii, Vivian (previously named Xavier Alexander) (17), Griffin (17), Damian (15), Saxon (15), Kai (15) and Nevada Alexander.

Exa Dark Sideræl, pronounced as 'sigh-deer-ee-el', came into Grimes and Musk's life in December 2021 via surrogacy. The 7-month-old daughter - who the parents will mostly call Y - is the youngest of Musk's many children.

As far as toddler X's name is concerned, its final pronunciation is, 'X Ash A Twelve'. "X is just the letter X, Æ is pronounced as Ash. And, A-12 is my contribution and it is just pronounced as A-12,” Musk clarified.

Recently, one of the billionaire's children applied for a name and gender change at the LA County Superior Court. His transgender child changed her name from Xavier Alexander to Vivian Jenna Wilson, dropping the prestigious title 'Musk'. Wilson is the 18-year-old's mother's maiden name. She also was granted the permission to change her gender from male to female in her official documents.

Musk and his first-wife Jennifer Justine Wilson with whom he was married for eight years share all the six children. Musk's first-born - Nevada Alexander - died in the 10th week of his birth in 2002 due to a condition called - the sudden infant death syndrome.

This means the 51-year-old now has ten known children, one of whom died shortly after birth.