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 |
|---|---|---|
| Burn | 1 | 1536 (borowgang) |
| of Burn | 1 | 1477 (citiner) |
| Burne | 1 | 1491 (cadger) |