Message app shows my contacts numbers instead of their names when I get a notification for a new message

As the title says, whenever I receive a new message there's a notification in the corner of the screen. The issue is it doesn't show the name of the contact, but the phone number instead. However when I'm on the window where all the conversations are I can see my contacts name and the conversations are listed by their names. Does anyone know how to fix this ? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
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