Searching in text by contact name

Before iOS6, I could search by contact name within the text messages area and it would sift through my long list of text messages to bring up the contact name that I had texted with. Now it appears that Apple is not allowing the contact name to be included in the search criteria, because when I type in someone's name to search for the last thread of texts with them, if there first name is not in one of the text messages, it brings NOTHING up. Apple please fix this like it was before. Allow the full name of the person (contact in your address book) to be automatically among the search criteria when you search through text messages.
Thanks,
DN

It seems you have not synced the contacts to OVI Suite.. Connect the phone to PC.. Open OVI Suite..Sync-->Sync Now-->Contacts..
Check the Messages after the sync is over..
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