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 |
|---|---|---|
| Laurence | 4 | 1495 (armourer), 1552-3 (botefull); 1599 (broder); 1600 (chantour) |
| Lowrans | 2 | 1468 (chese); 1475 (cheplane) |
| Laurencius [1] | 1 | 1329 (chapellane) |
| Lawrence | 1 | 1521 (contempnandly) |
| Lourance | 1 | 1601 (coblare) |
| Lourans | 1 | 1475 (chapellanry) |
| Lowrence | 1 | 1604 (cunstar) |
[1] This spelling was found in a Latin-language document.