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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maxwell | 2 | 1576 (borow); 1609 (authour) |
| Maxvell | 1 | 1609 (adreich) |