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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skene | 5 | 1440 (barounry); 1581 (commissar); 1599 (bangstrie); 1615 (barlaw); 1643 (cloither) |
| Skein | 1 | 1582 (asperans) |
| of Skene | 1 | 1434 (content) |
| Skeyne | 1 | 1458 (barony) |