Just ran across this -- I wrote a column on
Ingrid back in
August:
http://www.omaha.com/living/evans-here-s-looking-at-you-kid-and-ingrids-everywhere/article_1374effe-e205-5fb4-9b92-1495222421d6.html
As you can see from the above
Ingrid Bergman was largely responsible for the name's popularity in the United States as well as Latin
America.
Ingrid Bergman was one of the first internationally famous movie stars and so had a huge impact on this name in many parts of the world.