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In response to
"Just reading something about Billie Eilish and it mentioned her full name"
by
Andie
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He name was supposed to be Eilish Pirate instead of Billie Eilish Pirate, but her grandfather Bill died while her mom was pregnant.
Posted by
ty97
Mar 11 '24, 07:04
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"[Eilish] is my middle name," she explained in an interview with BBC. "So I'm Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell. Pretty weird, right? Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad. Then Baird is my mother's name."
According to Rolling Stone, Eilish was supposed to be the singer's first name because her parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell, once saw a documentary about conjoined twins named Katie and Eilish Holton and decided they liked the latter's name.
But, while Maggie was pregnant, her father, Bill, died — and her parents decided to name Billie after him instead.
The name Pirate is said to come from her brother, who was 4 years old when she was born, and insisted on calling her "Pirate."
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