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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : see Dignan.
  • English : of uncertain derivation. Perhaps, as Reaney suggests, a habitational name for someone from Dagenham, formerly in Essex, now in Greater London, which gets its name from an Old English personal name Dæcca + genitive -n + hām ‘homestead’.

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