Mail automatically adding last name to Contact in Address Book

Here is the problem. I have a contact "John" in my address book. No last name. I have his email "[email protected]" in his card. Whenever I send and receive mails from his email address (In Apple Mail) it automatically adds the last name "Doe" to the last name field in the address book. Is there anyway to stop this?

It's DEFINITELY a bug! My wife's name is "Jac" and every time I correct the address book to be "Jac" with no surname (or no Christian name and "Jac" as the surname) with in a day or so her contact is listed as "Jac Jac."
It's not listed this way anywhere else. Her emails to me are listed with her full name, not Jac Jac.
I just checked and she was in my previous recipients listed as Jac Jac, so perhaps if I remove that entry from the previous recipients of all my machines this might stop. But it must have started somewhere!

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