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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cotlar | 1 | 1356 (cutler) |
| Cutelere | 1 | 1365 (cutelere) |
| Cutellare | 1 | 1455 (cutelere) |
| Cutlar | 1 | 1366 (cutler) |
| Cutler | 1 | 1356 (cutler) |