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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cochrane | 4 | 1551-2 (brodering); 1552 (browdstar); 1565 (brodinstar); 1596 (chop) |