Contacts' first name field gets inserted in last name field when syncing

I have a strange behavior when syncing between iOS and the Mac:
A few contacts that I have only have a first name, let's say "Anna".
Everything runs fine on iOS - I write that person a mail and everything's fine. But the moment I write Anna a mail on my Mac the last name field also gets the entry of the first name field, thus leading to the contact "Anna Anna".
All I can do now is delete the last name field and everything's fine till I write a message on my Mac again.
Note: this problem only occurs on my Mac, not on iOS.
Second ote: the moment I'm sending the Mail on my Mac, iOS gets this error over sync.
Third note: I recognized that Mail.app's autocomplete/history of contacts has somehow stored those accounts like "Anna Anna". Removing the Previous Recipients from the list hasn't solved the problem yet.
This problem only covers 4 of my contacts, but being the most used ones this is driving me nuts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Tobi

Yup have tried resetting the contacts setting to switch it the wrong way round, didn't solve the problem - then back to the correct way round, also didn't solve the problem.
It's just the way that sometimes it shows firstname then lastname, and sometimes it shows lastname then firstname. Not one or the other but both ways round.
I have txts in my inbox that are first name first, underneath txts that are lastname first.
All very confusing I'm sure you can imagine!!

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