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Billie Eilish has been one of the best-known names of the international music scene for years-the American musician, who is called Billie Eilate Baird O’Connell with a full name, hated her own name as a child. In a new “British Vogue”-story Ask her prominent college: ask inside – including actors Idris Elba. Including actors Idris Elba – and he asks how it was to grow up as a girl with a name like Billie: “How did you feel that? Were you proud of your name or was he embarrassing?”
That’s why Billie Eilish hated her name
Billie Eilish replied: “I love this question! I absolutely hated my name as a child.” She was told again and again that Billie was a boy name. “I remember how angry I was, and everything I wanted was a girlish name – like violet or lavender, something that sounds pretty and flowery.”
Today it is completely different: “It is so funny because there could be no other name in the universe that suits me except Billie. I love my name so much. He is really the only possible choice for me.”
The singer was named after her grandfather: “The first Billy I ever knew was my grandfather – but I never got to know him.”
Billie Eilish: Dr. Who as a model
The first female role model with the name later discovered it: “The first female billie I think I knew, was Billie Piper from Doctor Who. I loved Doctor Who, so I was very, very excited about it. But at the same time I was also jealous and acidic, because I thought, how can someone say my name and someone else?