Starting in the Victorian Age, "Holmes" became a great name.
The careers of those three Holmeses, and their respective reputations in both literature and in law, intertwined over seven decades - from the Civil War in the 1860s to the Suprem. rose to fame as a judge, and, almost simultaneously, Sherlock Holmes rose to fame as a detective.
Then, as the 19th century turned to the 20th, his son Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
First there was the best-selling essayist and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Starting in the Victorian Age, "Holmes" became a great name