Submitted Name Save Gender Masculine Usage Ancient Aramaic Edit Status Status Contributor Contrib.anonymous on 4/3/2010 Last Editor EditorOra on 5/3/2014 [revision history] Meaning & History Means "son of fasting". It is more common as a surname, but appears occasionally as a given name. St. Barsoum El Erian was a Coptic saint in the thirteenth century.