My imessages come up as from my email address on others phones, why?

I am able to send and receive imessages fine but when others have receieved my messages they come up as a seperate contact under my email address. I have checked all my settings and under 'messages' in settings it is set to 'receive to' my phone number and email address which doesn't look any different to my friends settings!
It is very annoying! please help!
Thanks

You might try this Settungs>Messages>Send and Receive>Start New Conversations From>check your phone number

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I had this very same problem when trying to activate iMessage and Facetime on my iPad. When I signed into my account, I actually wasn't even presented with the option of a phone number - notwithstanding the fact that I was contacting others (and being reached by others) by my phone number on my iPhone. Having both the iPad and the iPhone on, I kept trying to turn off and on both iMessage and Facebook in Settings on both my iPad and iPhone, hoping that that they would eventually sync. But this proposed solution by others was unsuccessful for me.
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