Retrieve contacts accidentally deleted on iCloud

I was trying to figure out how to use I cloud. I recently bought a new iPad and was trying to sync info from my iPhone to the iPad. While in iCloud I remember a prompt came up asking to delete all contacts. I accidentally hit yes thinking it said download all contacts. All the contact names in my phone are gone but the phone numbers of my contacts are still there. How do I get the names back?

If you backed up your phone to iCloud while the contacts were still on it, you may be able to restore them by following Winston Churchill's user tip here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.  Otherwise, there is no way to recover them unless you have another backup source.

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