Kahlina families are Croats and they are mostly from Zabok area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zabok area and in Zagreb. In places Veliko Trgovišće and Domahovo in Zabok area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Kahlina.
Prevalence
About 280 people with faimily name Kahlina live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Veliko Trgovisce in Zabok area (65), Zagreb (65), Domahovo in Zabok area (30), Luka in Oroslavje area (10), and in Tisina Erdedska in Sisak area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.