How do you change the name of the Home Folder?

I would like to change the name of the Home Folder.
How do you do this?

Hold command r keys and boot the computer into Lion Recovery Partition.
From there you can erase the Lion OS X Partition using Disk Utility and download and install a new copy of Lion from Apple's Servers.
Upon rebooting normally you will go through the setup and can set whatever name on the machine as you wish.
All files and third party programs will be removed, so save your files off the machine and resintall programs from fresh sources, download iLife from the AppStore again if you need it.
Sorry this is the only way it can be done to remove a previous owner entirely from the machine, you can delete a use from the System Preferences> accounts, but not the owner unless you do a total reinstall.
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