'baldhead' originates from Old English, specifically the words 'bald' and 'heafod', where 'bald' meant 'a white patch; without hair' and 'heafod' meant 'head'.

'baldhead' changed from the earlier Old English/Middle English components (Old English 'bald' + 'heafod', later the Middle English phrase 'bald head') and eventually became the modern English compound 'baldhead'.

Initially it referred simply to a head with a white patch or lacking hair; over time it came to mean 'a person with no hair' and, in some dialects, developed a secondary derogatory/social sense (especially in Caribbean usage).