Syncing iphone and mac through iCloud

I have set up icloud on my mac desktop and iphone and for the most part my contacts are syncing back and forth when I go in to make any alterations or add or delete anything. Now for some reason I have duplicate names on my phone but not on my contacts on my mac.... why does this not sync. Also under some of my contacts I will have the cell numbers inputed on my back but will not appear on my iphone, any suggestions how to fix this?

FINALLY SOLVED -- The list that would not sync from my iPhone was one that had my name. I changed the name of the list with my own name to To Do Today. I tried to delete it but it was not possible. I realized that it is a permanent list wih my name. I started another list and it synced fine.
I thought Notes were not syncing to my Mac. I realized that my Mac had a setting whereby the creation date of the note is preserved. If I add to it, the date would stay the same.
However, on my iPhone and iPad, the notes are set to update the date whenever a note is modified. So the modified notes were syncing, but on my devices they appeared with the current date at the top of the list of notes, but on my Mac the change was down with the original date.

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