60+ Barn Owl Names: The Best List You'll Ever Find

Barn owls are among the most beautiful barn animals, and they make wonderful pets.

They have a lot of personalities and can be very affectionate with their humans.

One thing you’ll need to decide is what name to give it!

Whether this barn owl will live indoors or outdoors doesn’t matter – both barns have plenty of options for barn owl names.

We’ve compiled a list of over 60 barn owl names that are perfect for your new pet!

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Old English Names for Barn Owls

Strix	a “screech-owl”
Ulula	the “screech-owl”
Bubo	this is your standard, vanilla “owl”
Noctua	this one is your “night-owl”
Parra	this one is your owl as a bird of ill-omen

Nyra	(Greek origin) meaning “rose”
Errol	(English origin) means “a nobleman”
Kludd	the name for owls in Ecuador
Nightwing	is the name of a DC Comics superhero
Owlboy	the name of a video game
Owly	The title character of the American graphic novel series
Jareth	the owl manifestation of the Goblin King in the ‘Labyrinth’
Owlbear	the name of a creature in ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Hoots	(English origin) means “to scream”
Hedwig	(Germanic origin) meaning “warrior in war”.
Pigwidgeon	(English origin) meaning “small”
Woodsy	the name of the icon of the US Forest Service
Hermes	(Greek origin) meaning “interpreter”
Scowl	In ‘Happily Ever After’, Scowl was a sarcastic owl.
Noctus	(Latin origin) meaning “night”
Glimfeather	The name of an owl in C. S. Lewis’s ‘Chronicles of Narnia’
Gylfie	(Norse origin) meaning “miracle”.
Archimedes	(Greek origin) means “master planner” and was the name of Merlin’s owl.
Soren	(Scandinavian origin) meaning “strict”