Secret Birth: Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling secretly welcomed a second daughter last month

 Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have secretly welcomed their second child together.

According to a birth certificate obtained by TMZ, the 42-year-old actress gave birth to a baby daughter in Los Angeles on April 29.

And the couple picked a familiar name for their little girl, calling her Amada Lee.

The two stars’ eldest child, who was born in September 2014, is named Esmeralda Amada.

Amada Lee was born in Santa Monica at Providence St. John’s Health Center, according to the birth certificate.

It was only reported two weeks before she welcomed Amada that Eva was expecting another baby with 35-year-old Ryan.

Us Weekly claimed on April 14 that Eva was pregnant again, with a source claiming she had been trying to conceal a baby bump during an LA photo shoot in February.

Much like with Esmeralda, the star kept both the pregnancy and birth of her second child under wraps.

Amada is the name of the character Eva played in the 2007 movie We Own The Night, and also means ‘beloved’ in Spanish.

Eva and Ryan were pictured taking little Esmeralda out for a Mother’s Day lunch on Sunday, although there was no sign of baby Amada.

The Hitch actress gave birth to her second child less than two weeks after the tragic death of her older brother Carlos following a long battle with cancer.

Ryan said in a recent interview with Hello! magazine that his family is his ‘biggest investment’.

He shared: ‘I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with – I’m not looking for anything else beyond Eva – and I feel very lucky that we have a beautiful, healthy daughter, who is an angel. That’s investment enough for me.’

When asked how he fares as a dad, Ryan added: ‘You’d have to ask my girlfriend really – all I can say is that it’s important for me to be there for my daughter and that I want to be there too, because it’s so fun. Being a dad isn’t rocket science – I can handle it.’