Used by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his character Sherlock Holmes, who was a detective in Doyle's mystery stories beginning in 1887. The character's name was from an English surname meaning "shear lock", originally referring to a person with closely cut hair. Sherlock is a modern version of the Old English names "Shurlock and Scurlock", derived from the words "scir", which means "bright or fair", and "loc", which means "a lock of hair". The name therefore means a fair haired person.
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