How do owls get their names?

[celare_ulace]

No: HPFGUIDX 100904

Littlekat10 wrote:
> I don't recall Harry naming Hedwig in either the first or second 
> book.  I know that Harry calls her Hedwig but how on earth did she 
> get that name in the first place?  Could Hagrid have named her when 
> he purchased her for Harry?


 PS/SS, Ch6:   'Harry kept to his room, with his new owl for 
company. He had decided to call her Hedwig, a name he had found in A 
History of Magic.'

JKR is fond of using historically real names for certain characters. 
I'm wondering if the person in Harry's textbook after whom Hedwig is 
named is a real life witch (like Grindelwald...) There is a St 
Hedwig and a Hedwig village. I couldn't find any occult 
associations, though...

"celare_ulace"