How to permanently delete a contact?

My old contacts that I have deleted in the past, still show up when do the search for them. How can I delete a contact permanently so It won't show up again?
For example, I had a contact name "apple" after I deleted it, it still shows up when I search for contacts starting with a letter "a".
I am using phone iphone 5.
Thanks.

Delete  a contact from the iphone from the contact book : on top of the contact slide from left to rigth , press delete
NOTE : if you use the general search by sliding from left to rigth on main screen you are opennig a kind of search that will seach everything that as to do with what you type in the search will give results from : Contacts , messages , mail , apps ,etc
So if the contact that you delete can be found on a previus message or call or mail it will appear again ...

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