I lost some of my contacts when I backup in icloud

Hi everyone,
I lost some of my contacts when I backup in icloud,the problem is I have some contacts number but no names and some of them just gone,so if there is anyone knows about please help me.
Thanks

Thanks Carolyn. I tried that and it gave me an idea. I also had my contacts on Google. They were also in time machine but I used google. I went to my Google contacts and exported to apple as vcards. After checking the duplicates in the import screen, I merged duplicates in Address book. When I finished..... my contacts are back and correct. Yeah!!!!!!!
Butch

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