{"id":498299,"date":"2026-06-27T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:10:08","slug":"celebrities-middle-names-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498299\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities’ Middle Names Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll be happier than ever to learn the Grammy winner’s full name: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. <\/p>\n

While her last names come from parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, her first middle name Eilish is the Gaelic version of Elizabeth, according to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum<\/a>. As for Pirate, her then 4-year-old brother Finneas called her that before she was born.<\/p>\n

“They called me Pirate for months, and they were kind of planning on naming me Pirate,” the singer revealed in her 2020 audiobook Billie Eilish – In Her Own Words. “And soon before I was born, my grandfather died, and his name was William, a.k.a. Bill, Billie.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You’ll be happier than ever to learn the Grammy winner’s full name: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-498299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}