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 | 2 | 1532 (credil); 1564 (cost) | 
| Pebles | 1 | 1587 (commissionar) | 
| Peblys | 1 | 1456 (clame) |