When it comes to picking a name for baby [1], there are various routes families may take. There are family names and pop culture names, seasonal names, and classic names. But for Vin Diesel's new baby girl, the actor took the sentimental route. This morning, the actor revealed that he and his longtime girlfriend, Paloma Jiménez, named their daughter Pauline after his good friend and Fast and Furious costar Paul Walker [2] who died in a car crash in 2013. Vin told Today's Natalie Morales that Walker was the only person he was thinking about during his daughter's birth. "I felt like he was there," Diesel said. "It felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world"
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Pauline's birth has been an all-around sentimental one for Diesel, who shared a sweet photo of his fourth child [3] shortly after she was born. He captioned the photo with lyrics from Louis Armstrong's classic "What a Wonderful World," writing, "I hear babies crying, I watch them grow. They'll learn much more, Than I'll ever know. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world..."