iphone sms not displaying contact name

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SMS notifications show up on the lock screen, but not with the contact name but the phone number instead. Once in SMS app, its fine, contact shows up as expected.

I've done digging and can't find a solution. Lots of places say turn off, then on, iMessages - doesn't seem to help. The other often quoted method is to delete the entire SMS thread from a contact, but that only seem sot sort out the particular contact. And really I don't want to have to delete all my old texts.

Been happening for years, but suddenly started to annoy me again. Anyone have any suggestions?
 
I've been seeing the same issue with a few contacts who have Android phones so only send me SMS messages.

Their names show up fine in the Messages app, it's literally just on new message notifications that I see the problem.
 
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