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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oliphant | 3 | 1468 (bailȝe); 1565 (albany); 1598 (burne-ledar) |
| Olyphant | 3 | 1521 (culraach); 1559 (cloke); 1612 (advocatry) |
| Olephant | 1 | 1502 (cietenar) |
| Olyfant | 1 | 1491 (betwis) |