Well, did it?
Who?
Athena. Greek Goddess of Wisdom. She had an owl. I don’t know what its name was either. Neither does Google.
Well, in Clash of the Titans, it was Bubo (which is also the genus of many types of owls), but I suspect that was made up for the movie.
Hera: What’s the owl’s name?
Athena: Who.
H: The owl.
A: Who.
H: The owl!
A: Who!
H: Who is sitting on your shoulder right now?!
A: Yes.
H: Who?
A: Yes.
H: Yes?
A: Yes, who.
H: The owl.
A: Who.
H: The frikkin’ owl, you head-spawned moron! What is the name of the owl?
A: No, who.
H: (stomping off muttering) Damned goddess of wisdom… Goddess of the wise-asses is more like it…
Watches the joke go right over Q.E.D.'s head
I always thought it was Hooter.
Was it just one, or a pair?
[sup]I waited years to use that link![/sup] 
http://ganymede.jtan.com/~ghost/index/owl.html
http://www.echoedvoices.org/Jul2001/JulyGodMonth.html
What many links are pointing at is that Athena=owl! Sublight paradoxically did nail it:
http://www.fjkluth.com/athena.html
Can not vouch for accuracy, but those sites look like they did their homework.
In the movie, the owl was made by Hephaistos so Athena wouldn’t have to send Perseus “her” owl.
True, but I think the mechanical owl and the real owl shared the same name.
I was always ticked that Bubo never a constellation in the closing monologue. After all, that selfish bint Casseopeia got one!
Heh not even Hollywood can create new constellations. The ones that are there are all we’ve got!
IIRC, Athena doesn’t have a personal owl. She’s just associated with the owl and the olive tree.
I tried looking up “Bubo” in my classical Greek dictionary and found nothing. But I did find it in my Latin dictionary.
It says that it comes from the root BOV, which means “to cry out” or “to bellow”. Which would appear to be the same root whence sprang the word bovine. It would seem that this root does go back to Greek, but again I can’t connect it to anything sounding like “Bubo”. And my Greek dictionary doesn’t have an English-to-Greek section.
That’s the best I can do.
Sublight with the comedy takedown! Yowza!
This guy named it Heterodoxos, a couple dozen centuries after the fact.
Yes, my owl’s name is Marvin.
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*Originally posted by Sublight *
**Hera: What’s the owl’s name?
Athena: Who.
H: The owl.
A: Who.
Abbott and Costello have nothing to worry about here!
(Who’s on first?, quite possibly the funniest bit ever done. Their timing was fabulous.)
Now, the serious post. 
Though the owl is associated with this goddess, it often times appears to be merely an attribute of her, and not a named creature.
Other times, when it definitely a separate creature, it is called (are you ready for this?) OWL ( or Little Owl ). This friend of Athena is used as her messenger and sees truths that others my overlook or try to hide.
Hope this helps.
Short story.