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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hume | 5 | 1481 (brok); 1492 (aventure); 1517 (anherd); 1524 (bredehous); 1542 (apperand) |
| Home | 3 | 1515 (chamberlane); 1527 (castelward); 1597 (broder) |
| Hvme | 1 | 1542 (apperand) |