Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song recently welcomed their first child.

Their son, Dakota Song Culkin, was born at 1:10 p.m. April 5, weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces, according to People magazine.

Culkin, 40, and Song, 33, named their newborn after Culkin’s late sister Dakota.

Dakota died at age 29 after being accidentally struck by a car in December 2008 in Los Angeles, People reported.

“We’re overjoyed,” Culkin and Song said in a brief statement about the arrival of their first child.

Esquire was the first to report the baby news.

Culkin and Song met on the set ofChangeland” and were first romantically linked when they were spotted out in July 2017.

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