Actor Vin diesel has named his newborn daughter Pauline, in honour of his late co-star of "Fast And The Furious" film franchise, Paul Walker.

Diesel shared the name of his daughter while on NBC's show "Today" on Monday, reports eonline.com.

"I named her Pauline. There's no other person that I'm thinking about as I'm cutting this umbilical cord. I knew he was there and I felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my memory, a part of my world," Diesel said.

Pauline, whose birth was announced via Facebook on March 16, is Diesel's third child with Paloma Jiménez.

The actor and his longtime girlfriend are also the proud parents of daughter Hania Riley Sinclair and son Vincent Sinclair.

Paul Walker died on November 2013 due to a car crash.

(Source: IANS)