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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dunblane | 3 | 1473 (chanoun); 1474 (commissar); 1542 (cousignes) |
| Dumblain | 1 | 1588 (charterhous) |
| Dumblane | 1 | 1573 (choristar) |
| Dunblen | 1 | 1604 (chalder) |