The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Bamff | 3 | 1534 (anent, dampnage); 1545 (borowis) |
| Banff | 2 | 1489 (bind); 1551 (comburgeis) |
| Banf | 1 | 1454 (crove) |