About the name Kalina
Kalina belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Kalina first appears in Social Security records in 1962. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1334 in 2019, and in 2024 130 babies received the name — 4,152 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.