German: habitational name from Nidda, a town (also a river) in Hesse. In some cases the surname was run together with the preposition von ‘from’, ‘of’, giving rise to the form Vonada, which is common in PA, and Vonnieda in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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