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 |
|---|---|---|
| Findlay | 1 | 1604-5 (calsay-makar) |
| Findlaye | 1 | 1594-5 (casay) |
| Finlaw | 1 | 1495 (cussing) |
| Finlay | 1 | 1625 (brod) |
| Fyndlay | 1 | 1597 (clath) |