Exa
Spelling variation of Achsah, Hebrew
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Updated Fri Nov 15 2024
Exa Origin and Meaning
The name Exa is a girl's name meaning "adorned".
In the 21st century, Exa is best known as the given name of Grimes and Elon Musk's daughter Y, a sibling for X Æ A-XII. The celebrity parents were inspired by the supercomputer terms exaFLOPS, which is the "ability for a supercomputer to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second."
Historically, Exa was used as a phonetic variation of the biblical name Achsah, Caleb's daughter in the Old Testament. Exa was primarily used by Christians, and made the popularity charts a handful of times in the late 19th century. Exie is the short form.
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