Airdrop/Family Sharing - wrong name showing.

Hi.
Having updated to iOS8 today, I've set up Family Sharing with my wife and daughter. However, when I tried to send something to my wife via airdrop it showed on her phone as if my daughter tried to send it.
I've double checked both my and my daughter's settings and we do not have any duplication any email addresses etc in each other's accounts anywhere.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Gary

I had the same pproblem initially. The name is not pulled from your contacts, it is taken from the iTunes account itself. I had to login to my wife's Apple ID via iTunes (very bottom of the first screen in the iTunes app) which sent me to Safari and asked me to login online. Once I did, I saw that somehow my wife's account was under my own name instead of hers for some reason. It's easy to fix, just click edit on the right.

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