Kalina is the Slavic word for the guelder rose (viburnum) — a shrub with bright red berries, deeply symbolic in Slavic folk culture, especially Ukrainian, where it represents motherland and youth.
Kalina is widely used in Poland, Ukraine, and Bulgaria.
Kalina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kalina reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.