13 best baby names of 2013, one of them's Bruce

Bruce Wayne is Batman. So if you think your kid will become Batman then, sure, go ahead and call him Bruce. Picture: Warner Bros. Source: Supplied

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HOLLYWOOD is seriously warping the baby-name trend.

Bruce Wayne. Thor. Olivia Wilde. They're all influencing some of the hottest, yet oddest, new names in 2013.

Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, is an obvious choice. Christopher Nolan's epic film series concluded in style last year and no one is suaver than Mr Wayne.

Thor, ok, The Avengers, fair enough. But who wants to be called Thor when they're 24 and rake-thin and not in the least resembling the hulking, hammer-wielding Chris Hemsworth?

With those inclusions, here are the hottest 13 baby names for 2013, according to Nameberry:

• Bruce
• Thor
• Marnie
• Marlowe
• Christian
• Nelly
• Mavis
• Severine
• Wilder
• Phaedra
• Mingus
• Linnea
• Finnegan

Thor. Hammer not included. Picture: Disney Source: Supplied

Before we let you go, a few observations: Severine, honestly, is just not a word; Mingus sounds like a TV character who specialises in "search terms", wears thick glasses, talks fast, but still gets a lot of hot girls; Finnegan, at best, is an Irish surname.

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