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 |
|---|---|---|
| Richard | 8 | 1412 (borch); 1423 (alderman); 1433 (chamerlane); 1434 (atour); 1472 (analy); 1473 (currour); 1502 (cronar); 1582 (brother) |
| Richart | 5 | 1490 (burgesry); 1509 (chalange); 1574 (bluding); 1582 (cot-, craving) |
| Dic | 4 | 1456 (as, bathe, chalange); 1462 (ake-tre, annual) |
| Ricardus [1] | 3 | 1356 (cutler); 1365 (cutelere); 1366 (cutler) |
| Rychert | 2 | 1546 (almery, comptar) |
| Rechart | 1 | 1541 (brother) |
| Rechert | 1 | 1558 (commounis) |
| Ric. | 1 | 1599 (dale) |
| Riche | 1 | 1494 (alsmekill) |
| Richeart | 1 | 1612 (bangstrie) |
| Richert | 1 | 1599 (cart) |
| Rychart | 1 | 1499 (ber-man) |
| Ryche | 1 | 1489 (cordinar) |
[1] This is from a Latin-language document.