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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ramsay | 10 | 1488 (chekker); 1495 (consile); 1510-3 (busch); 1516 (bludewite); 1543 (custum); 1590 (candilmakar); 1600 (chance, dead-straik); 1616 (crepill); 1629 (buffill) |
| the Ramsay | 2 | 1388 (accord); 1423 (chamerlane) |