Big Sur created contact duplicates

Hello 1966law,

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. We understand that you're running into an issue with your iCloud contacts showing duplicated. Check out article, If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts, to walk you through how to correct this issue.

Best regards.

thanks - this worked. In my case, it was only local contacts and syncing with Google as my primary account on my Apple devices. My iMessage is still showing numbers without names though (despite them being in my Contacts)