Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rename \Re*name"\ (r?*n?m"), v. t.
   To give a new name to.

Source : WordNet®

rename
     v 1: assign a new name to; "Many streets in the former East
          Germany were renamed in 1990"
     2: name again or anew; "He was renamed Minister of the
        Interior"