How to change admin user name?

I have seen directions in this community related to earlier editons of OSX, but not to OS 10.8.  I just set up a new iMac.  In booting I established the user admin name "Bob", which is the name I wanted to use permanently.  However, when I subsequently ran Migration Assistant to transfer all of our data from my wife's old iMac to the new iMac, I received a message that the user "Bob" on the old iMac would have to be renamed (e.g. Bob1), since you can not have two users with the same name.  What I want to end up with is to delete the Bob account that I used only to boot up the new iMac and check Software Updarte, and use my "Bob" user migrated from the old iMac.  But, I want the migrated account to be "Bob", not "Bob1".  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Hi, I followed your instructions but when I get to step 5, I don't get what is described in step 6. I only get a left-pointing red arrow and a text below that says "Name is already used by another user". So I cannot proceed further. Did I miss something?
The user newuserfolder was created with the terminal and the files were moved there.

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