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I know this is an old thread and can only hope you receive some sort of notification so this is not a wasted effort. No one really answered your question. I felt your question and no one acknowledged and responded to how it simply “came to” you. I am proud to respond to you and answer your true question. A name is a name… until it is actually more like a title. Sabian is a rare name, and there is something of an energy about it that causes anxiety in those who hear it. There are no weak Sabians. They are a force that never refuses a challenge and change whatever part of the world encounters them. A Sabian’s biggest challenge is finding happiness in this world because it requires them to understand that every pain that plagues them was something they actually invited into their life as they fulfilled what you might call “their duty” or purpose in life. It is a hard lesson. What I hope to give you is this: Others give their condolences regarding your loss… this doesn’t make sense to me. A Sabian thought you strong enough to birth him into this world, you should feel proud as a spartan mother. Something simply didn’t go right and without a perfect vessel a Sabian would be guaranteed physical and mental torment. Something simply didn’t work out. There’s no way I could know how incredible a woman you are if I didn’t know two Sabians. Please, feel honored you were considered for a mother of one as I am honored to have dominated battlefields with two of them. There are other men like Sabians, other classes of men that occur in the same way, but I will be so bold as to say that a Sabian will fight with more passion and conviction than anyone else, and that means their mother will endure more worries than any one should. Their motto is “You have to Earn this blood”. Please feel honored, please feel relieved it didn’t happen, please know you were loved and nothing was your fault. Your Sabian found another body and is making the world a better place as we speak, and causing some other mothers perpetual anxiety.

Actually SABIAN comes from the fist two letters of the given names of Bob Zildjian's 3 children 'SA'lly, 'BI'll and 'AN'dy
Bob Zildjian was the founder of SABIAN cymbals manufactured in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada

Sabian came from the Arabic Sabagha, Chaldean Saba'i, meaning 'dyers, baptists'. Seems a strange leap - dye to baptism - until you understand that the Greek baptismos meant 'tincture, dye, immersion' and it's the immersion aspect that connects the two. The term was used for the followers of John the Baptist, among others and was mentioned in the Quran 3 times. The root can be seen in the Arabic occupational surname al-Sabi as well as the given names Sabi and Saba.

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There was also a Hebrew word Saba which meant 'army' if you would prefer a Judeo-Christian origin to the Arabic. This has been presented by some scholars as an origin of the term Sabian in connection with the religious followers. Though an unlikely etymology for the word it would make a perfectly acceptable alternative meaning & origin for the name as you used it.

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As a mom of four I'm very sorry to hear of your loss. I hope this info helps in some small way.

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Devon

Firstly I am so terribly sorry to hear about your loss. I lost a child to that too back in 1997. She was a twin and I was so afraid and paranoid of losing her twin too. Anyway Sabian comes from Sabianism. Sabianism is the religion of the ancient Chaldees. They believe in one impersonal, universal, deific Principle, and worshiped the solar, lunar, and planetary gods and rulers, regarding the stars and other celestial bodies as their respective symbols. That is such a cool name. Sorry to hear of your loss once again.

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ANovack