Contacts disapearing

Recently my contacts have started disappearin, it has been very random, have not erased or changed any settings. I texted someone and after the message had been sent, the contact name changed to phone number only. Also my contacts in message app are not appearing under contacts app, what's going on?

This happened to me about a year and half ago - two out of approx 1300 contacts were affected. I re added them back in and it has been fine since. Never could isolate the problem.
Do you use iCloud to back up your contacts?

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