In Mail - emails arrive with the wrong name?

I am receiving emails both in general and from FaceBook with the wrong name as the sender. Today I received an email from "Jerri" and the name shown was "Marilyn". I also receive all my FB emails from 'Dina' and they are from all kinds of different people.
I'm on a MacBook Pro, 10.10.2. I looked on FB to find an answer, but can't find anything, but it must be with Mail, as the emails arrive from anyone direct (not from FB) and they are wrong. I did just rebuild Mail, but the same wrong names are there.
Thanks anyone, Cheryl

It is an excellent question .. it used to happen when I ran my first Mac on snow leopard but I have never pursued the reason until I saw your question.
Here is a useful reference.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/55416/my-mac-minis-computer-name-keeps- changing-when-it-resumes-from-sleep
Something is faulty in the main router. That it is a TC is no surprise really.. they are far from being great routers.
Of course if this didn't happen on previous OS but is now happening since you moved to Yosemite.. well you know where the blame lies.. although how Yosemite is affecting it I don't know.
Since I moved everything to Asus router I no longer have the problem. But my Mac was up to (5) and I thought this is getting ridiculous.
Let me copy and paste the answer and kudos to the guy who posted it.. Jon not me.
I've seen this happen when the local DNS server has DNS caching enabled, but doesn't flush the cache often enough (or at all).
You can set your Host Name/Computer Name to a static value using scutil in Terminal. This means that your Mac will no longer change it's name automatically, so it's important that there are no other machines on your network that actually have that hostname. When you run this, replace "new_hostname" with your desired hostname:
sudo scutil –-set HostName new_hostname
sudo scutil –-set LocalHostName new_hostname
sudo scutil –-set ComputerName new_hostname
You can check to make sure the values are set by running:
sudo scutil –-get HostName new_hostname
sudo scutil –-get LocalHostName new_hostname
sudo scutil –-get ComputerName new_hostname
When you do this you might keep getting errors that another computer of the same name is on the network.. just reboot the TC to clear the DNS cache.
Or if that doesn't work you will need to clear the cache from the local computer.

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