Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song welcome their first child together

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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song welcome their first child together

Marianne Garvey

CNN Digital

Published Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:14AM EDT

Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song have welcomed a new baby named Dakota Song. Culkin and Song are shown at the Stand Up To Cancer telecast at the Barkar Hangar on Friday, September 7, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song have welcomed a new baby, a rep for Culkin confirmed to CNN.

The couple welcomed a son named Dakota Song Culkin, after the actor's late sister, Dakota, who died in 2008 at age 29.

The baby was born on April 5 in Los Angeles.

"We're overjoyed," Culkin and Song said in a statement obtained by CNN and first reported by .

Culkin and Song met a few years ago on the set of "Changeland." They both had roles in the movie.

Culkin is currently filming "American Horror Story" season 10 with Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe and Finn Wittrock.