In Croatia, Kalina families are generally Croats (from Omis area ), very rarely Czechs (from Daruvar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Kalina live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 6 other places, mostly in Jesenice in Omis area (15), Zagreb (<10), Dugi Rat in Omis area (<10), Varazdin (<5), and in Vukovar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.