Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake (2003) traces three decades in the life of the Ganguli family, Bengali immigrants who settle in the Boston suburbs, and their American-born son Gogol, who spends much of his life trying to escape the name his father gave him. This paper argues that Lahiri uses the act of naming, along with recurring motifs of food, ritual, and domestic space, to dramatise the condition that Homi Bhabha calls the “third space” of cultural hybridity. This position is neither fully Indian nor fully American but is continuously negotiated. Reading the novel alongside Bhabha’s theory of hybridity and Stuart Hall’s account of diasporic identity as a matter of “becoming” rather than “being,” the paper traces Ashima and Ashoke’s first-generation nostalgia, Gogol’s adolescent rejection of his Bengali heritage, and his eventual, partial reconciliation with it after his father’s death. The paper concludes that Lahiri resists offering a tidy resolution to the immigrant’s divided consciousness, presenting cultural belonging instead as an unfinished, generational process.