The meaning of the word is "for the Oneida Nation." Tradition tells us that the Indian forefathers in New York State while out hunting and fishing had a red stone given to them by Tammy which was taken from a cleft in the granite rock. From this stone they took the name Oneida which means "the people of the stone."Oneida is named for a tribe of New York Indians, a branch of the Iroquois, who removed to Wisconsin early in the nineteenth century. The name was said to signify "granite people."

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[Source: p. 35 of Johnstone's A Story of Pittsfield and Suamico.Gannett, Place Names, p. 196]