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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hudsoun | 2 | 1580 (balladine); 1592 (chantorie) |
| Hutsoun | 1 | 1581 (balladine) |