In Croatia, Kavali families are Croats (from Kutina area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo and in Kutina area. In Donja Vlahinička in Kutina area every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Kavali.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Kavali live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are only located in four Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (<10), Veliki Banovac (<5), Zagreb (<5), Djakovo (<5), and in Donja Vlahinicka in Kutina area (<5).