The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scots Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers | 
|---|---|---|
| Lawry | 1 | 1488 (burgen) | 
| Lowre | 1 | 1553 (act) | 
| Lowrey | 1 | 1600 (barne) | 
| Lowry | 1 | 1571 (catioun) |