Iida Family History
Iida Name Meaning
Japanese: written 飯田 ‘paddy of cooked rice’; perhaps the original meaning was ‘good rice paddy’. One family descended from the Takeda family lived in the village of Iida in Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture); another family of Murakami descent lived in a village by that name in Shinano (now Nagano prefecture). Both families are of the Minamoto clan. The name is also found in Okinawa.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022