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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wilsone | 9 | 1492 (answer, claym); 1556 (colleg); 1560 (bargane); 1587-8 (candilmes); 1616 (constabilry); 1637 (colȝear); 1645 (bedel); 1648 (deaconrie) |
| Wilsoun | 7 | 1513-4 (bunch); 1543 (chaplanry); 1550 (brostar); 1571-2 (bedel); 1574 (bluding); 1576 (burgeschip); 1588-9 (bra) |
| Wilson | 4 | 1456 (chalange); 1591 (bowmaker); 1598 (batewicht) |
| Vilson | 2 | 1517 (commoun); 1528 (dawerk) |
| Vilsone | 1 | 1520 (bowal) |
| Wylsoun | 1 | 1563 (cunnar) |