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 |
|---|---|---|
| Geddes | 7 | 1456 (borch, chalange); 1559 (cloke); 1603 (bred); 1627 (cautionrie); 1650 (complice, conjunct) |