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.