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 |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara | 8 | 1548 (court); 1548-9 (cornet); 1559 (bla); 1563 (adherence, commit, cummer); 1596 (cord); 1629 (ded-) |