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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alesoun | 2 | 1578 (bygottin); 1596 (cashelawis) |
| Alice | 1 | 1400 (dame) |
| Alis | 1 | 1411 (cristin) |
| Alison | 1 | 1633 (chop) |
| Alisoune | 1 | 1519 (bailȝery) |
| Elesone | 1 | 1531 (dame) |