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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peblis | 17 | 1434 (chapel); 1445 (bailȝe); 1456 (burch); 1458 (chamerlane); 1473 (baillie); 1497 (continuatioun); 1509 (burrow-male); 1552 (castel); 1556 (brig); 1559 (counsallschip); 1564 (cituat, communité); 1569 (conduce); 1571 (burrowage); 1640 (cordonar); 1645 (convoy) |
| Pebles | 2 | 1631-2 (casting); 1647 (bell) |
| Peibilles | 2 | 1641 (chapellanry, corn-miln) |
| Pablis | 1 | 1488 (cors-kyrk) |
| Pebillis | 1 | 1460 (communité) |
| Peibles | 1 | 1641 (brouch) |