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In honor of Paul Walker, new dad-of-three Vin Diesel has named his newborn daughter after the late actor.

During a Monday appearance on TODAY, the Furious 7 star, 47, shared the details.

“I named her Pauline,” the actor shared. “It felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world.”

The spiritual star went on to talk about the touching tribute to his longtime friend.

“He was in the room [when she was born]. There’s no other person that I was thinking about as I was cutting this umbilical cord. I just … knew he was there,” Diesel said. “It felt like a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world.”

Diesel and his model girlfriend, Paloma Jiménez, 31, welcomed their third child earlier this month.

The actor announced the birth by posting the first photo of his newborn via Facebook.

Baby Pauline joins big brother Vincent Sinclair, 4½, and sister Hania Riley, 6½.

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