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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sym | 6 | 1508 (bern); 1569 (clippar); 1614 (barn, born, call) |
| Syme | 1 | 1581 (cunȝe-) |