Contacts randomly duplicating/multiplying on my iPhone

My contacts are randomly dupicating/multiplying on my iPhone. Not every contact is doing it but most are. In some cases, I now have up to 7 or 8 of the same contact.
How to I stop this from happening?

I believe so. I do not have the "iCloud Backup" function turned on on my iPhone. I have an old generation iMac that can't use iCloud. If I turn on the iCloud Backup, will that stop the duplication?

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