Messages Contact Names Appear as Numbers Now Instead

I have OS X 10.8.5, my Messages app has all of my contacts as their phone numbers now instead of their names.  There are a few contact that have their name appear still, but a majority of them appear as phone numbers.  I don't remember if this happened after I installed iOS 7 on my phone, but I think there might be a correlation between the two.
Has this happened to anyone else?  How do I fix this?

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