Meaning: "People of the stone."

Popularity: The name Oneida ranked 2412th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

Narrative: This is the name of a tribe of the Iroquois confederacy, which was adopted by a county, a city and a lake in New York state. An alternate source could be the Iroquoian word tiioneniote (''the place of the rock'').

Iroquoian is a branch of the Hokan-Siouan family of Native American languages.