In Croatia, Cresina families are Croats (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Cresina live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Rovinj (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.