headlight | Etymology of headlight by etymonline.
The origin of headlight did not come from cars. It came from ships and locomotives having a light up front. 1861. They have nothing for headlamp.
Something funny going on with these results. Can a member vote more than once…?.. or is the system glitching ?
Pinky’s screenshot shows 3 members voting 10 times each and my screenshot shows 4 members voting eight times each.
Edit.
The voting machine has definitely gone wonky.
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Hm? How/Where do you see that?
Nevermind… wrong screenshot. 
I am guilty I have hit the voting button too many times. 
What is SEO?
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“SEO—short for search engine optimization” according to the internet. 
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headtorch since both headlamp and headlight subconsciously imply car lights for me
Yeah, but my point was that the average random person today is going to think of lighting on a (road) vehicle as the first connotation of the word.
I haven’t voted and I am not responsible for hacking into the voting machine and corrupting it.
This is the budget"light"forum. Other than a few British blokes, we call handheld “lights” flashlights. Why would we change to “lamp” just because we strap it on our head or neck or chest. The tiny bit of confusion that a few people might have for a brief instant in conversation I think is a very minor problem. Some manufacturers do use the term headlamp. I am not confused either way. Some manufacturers use the term Firefly or moonlight or eco mode.
Hmmm. How do we know that the boxes weren’t switched when some people were voting? 