Are First and Last Names needed for printing or eFiling 1099s?

I thought I read a post about this, but now I cannot locate one.

When we have Vendors with SSNs, like in this ABC Vendor below, we expect the First Name and Last Name fields to be filled out, but they are not:

Of course we get this message, which makes us think these might have a problem if they are missing:

I was working with a client yesterday who reports 1099s for several companies in Sage, one of which has almost one hundred of these.

Do we have to manually key in the names on the Aatrix grid?

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