Last name duplicating in contacts...

I'm in the Army National Guard and I have my military contacts list as title and last name in the first name field, i.e. CPT (captain) Doe.  My contacts are set to sort by first name and it makes it really easy to find my military contacts this way.
However since owning my first iPhone in 2007 I've had an issue with the last name "Doe" duplicating in the last name field, so contacts will show up as CPT Doe Doe.  I go in and edit the contacts and its not hard but I don't understand why it does it.  Today I saw about 6 names in my contacts list like that but the other military names don't seem to do it. 
I have a Macbook, iPhone 4S and iPad 2 all set up to sync contacts with iCloud and thats it.  Any thoughts?

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