Has Dodgeball always been called Dodgeball?

Back in the 70s when I played in grade school, we called it Dodgeball, and I was actually pretty good. 🙅🏽

We were more polite/less aggressive in Canada. We called it Excuse-me-you're-in-the-way-ball.

My school called it Prisoner Dodgeball. I never liked playing it.

When I was a kid, we called it Battle Ball.

In the upper Midwest part of the US, it was called Dodgeball in the mid-1960s.

To the limits of my knowledge, yes.

It was originally called Deathball & they used bowling balls with razor sharp spikes covering them, not plastic bouncy balls. Like real men.

One of my schools called it prison ball