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Oneida

Girls' name

Possibly standing rock

Oneida has been given to 2,268 babies in the U.S. since 1887. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Oneida, 2023

1 in 368,000

Oneida over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oneida: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly standing rock

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oneida means

Oneida may mean “standing rock”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Oneida is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /oʊ.ˈnaɪ.də/ for Oneida.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,268 girls were recorded with the name Oneida between 1887 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1919; its best national rank was #887 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Oneida?

Oneida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oneida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oneida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oneidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oneida was born before 1945 — so the typical Oneida is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,057
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Oneida rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (63)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#887
1919

Spellings of Oneida

Oneida is not the most common spelling — Nelda is, with 34.8% against Oneida's 3.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Oneida is used

Across 1910–2025, Oneida was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 169,426 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Oneida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oneida around the world

Where Oneida ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oneida by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#887
1919
Peak year
1919
63 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,268
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oneida

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AleidaMeridaZoraidaOneitaFaridaZenaidaRashidaNaidaMaidaOnetaOnestyZaidaSaidaFraidaAlidaArmidaFreidaVaidaNelidaBriseidaOnestiDavidaAdelaidaKaida

Names with a curve like Oneida

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Oneida, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Oneida

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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