Dagenham

Meaning

Proper Noun

• large suburb of city, London in eastern Greater London (county) England (constituent country).

Origin

• First appeared in a document (as Dæccanhaam) in a charter of Barking Abbey dating from 666 AD. The name almost certainly originated with a small farmstead, the "ham" or farm of a man called Daecca, of uncertain meaning, but compare þæc.