How do I delete "prefix" in Address Book on my iPhone?

When I imported Address Book to my iPhone, it also imported my prefix field. When I receive a known phone call or I am searching for a contact, all I can see is "Mr. and Mrs...." in the screen. Certainly I need the prefix for my Macbook when writing letters, address labels, etc., but not in my iPhone. I cannot seem to find a satisfactory way to delete the prefix on my iPhone.
I did think about making a copy of AB and then deleting the prefixes, but even that seems difficult as (so far) the only way I can make that work is my deleting each prefix, individually. I have a thousand contacts and that seems awfully laborious. Finally, I'm not even sure how I could merge that into iPhone without screwing up my original Address Book. I can only imagine the **** I would create if I lost all my prefixes.
Thanks!

Hi Tom
Maybe you have solved this problem by now. I am having an issue importing contacts into the handsfree phonebook on my car. All the entries with a prefix are arranged together by the prefix and not the surname. The only workaround I have come up with is to erase the the information in the prefix field and place the prefix information in the First Name field (copy>paste>delete). Not ideal but at least everything is arranged by surname in my car which is what I need. Very clumsy for voice activated calls but at least I can find entries in my car phone book now and re-creating my address labels was straightforward.

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