The story
- Old English · inherited fromDæccanhām
- English todayDagenham
From Old English Dæccanhām, having -ham. 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 (“roof”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.