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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brechine | 7 | 1410 (bischop, chapter); 1450 (cité); 1457 (chanceler, citiner); 1563 (cietenar, cruelly) |
| Brechin | 4 | 1568 (cordinar); 1571 (citiner); 1612 (chantour); 1626-7 (calsay-makar) |
| Brechyn | 4 | 1451 (bischop); 1463 (consail); 1535 (bog, commonté) |
| Brichane | 1 | 1575 (blok) |