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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rutherglen | 1 | 1449 (burgeis) |
| Ruthirglen | 1 | 1575 (burch) |