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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hammiltoun | 3 | 1545 (browstar); 1553 (cadger); 1568 (debilitat) |
| Hamiltone | 1 | 1649 (corps) |
| Hammildone | 1 | 1556 (bra) |
| Hammilton | 1 | 1531 (college kirk) |
| Hammyltoun | 1 | 1530 (continual) |
| Homyldoun | 1 | 1460 (commoun) |