Kalinski families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Vrbovec area. In Gradečki Pavlovec in Vrbovec area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Kalinski.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Kalinski live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Crecan (15), in Gradecki Pavlovec (15) and Gradec (10) in Vrbovec area, and in Kalinje (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.