Snowball Family History
Snowball Name Meaning
English (Durham and Northumberland): nickname for someone with a snow‐white patch of hair or a whitish bald spot amid dark hair from Middle English snou snow ‘snow’ + ball ‘white streak bald place’. Snowbald an early variant may be evidence of the latter meaning from Middle English balled ‘bald’ though the -d may be excrescent. Compare Bald Ball
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022