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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cuninghame | 3 | 1581 (blasphematour); 1613 (chuse); 1639 (custom) |
| Cunynghame | 3 | 1494 (crounar); 1546 (crave); 1547-8 (col-) |
| Conynghame | 1 | 1571 (aventure) |
| of Cunninghaim | 1 | 1483 (chimnay) |
| of Cunnyghame | 1 | 1416 (assigné) |
| Cunnyngham | 1 | 1504 (belechere) |
| Cunnynghame | 1 | 1532 (chargeour) |
| Cunyghame | 1 | 1645 (conseller) |
| Cvnynghame | 1 | 1552 (becum) |
| Cwninghame | 1 | 1591 (champ) |
| Cwnyngham | 1 | 1513-4 (bleching) |