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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peirson | 1 | 1508 (bote) |
| Person | 1 | 1497 (anniversar) |
| Persone | 1 | 1503 (cuke) |
| Piersone | 1 | 1586 (borow) |