What do y’all think of discrepancies between 1st and 2nd daughters in number of letters/syllables…ie:
Daughter 1 = [name_f]Carolina[/name_f]
Daughter 2 = [name_f]Kaia[/name_f]
Daughter 1 = [name_f]Sarah[/name_f]
Daughter 2 = [name_f]Shoshanna[/name_f]
Does it appear that preference is shown toward the child with the longer, more grandiose name?
I think it is fine to have sisters with different numbers of syllables and letters in their names. [name_f]My[/name_f] name has less letters than my younger sister’s and [name_u]Ive[/name_u] never thought anything of it. [name_f]My[/name_f] Mom has a longer name with more syllables than her sister and she said niether of them has ever had a problem with it. [name_f]Hope[/name_f] this helps!
I think different length and syllables is fine - what would bother me more is whether one is a lot more popular than the others 
I think visually, I would prefer if they were more similar in length, but I don’t necessarily see it as preferring one child/having favorites.
I think it depends on the choices? [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] and [name_f]Shoshanna[/name_f] feel quite evenly paired as they are both Hebrew, both traditional in certain circumstances, etc. [name_f]Carolina[/name_f] and [name_f]Kaia[/name_f] feel less evenly paired, though, as [name_f]Kaia[/name_f] (much as I adore her) feels much more trendy than [name_f]Carolina[/name_f] (although with those current spellings, the nationalities feel quite different to me, too - [name_f]Carolina[/name_f] Spanish, [name_f]Kaia[/name_f] Hawaiian or Scandinavian, etc.). Something like Ines/Inez and [name_f]Carolina[/name_f] feel perfectly paired to me!
Then again, my style is quite eclectic and I have a huge range of names from [name_f]Evangeline[/name_f] to Liliandil to [name_f]Claire[/name_f] on my own list. If you don’t bring attention to it, I’m not sure the kids would even notice?
Good luck!
Similar to one of the above replies, I don’t think I notice differences in length as much as long as the names feel similar in some way. Whether that’s in origin as listed above, or perhaps the era they were most popular (Emma and Josephine)
I think I’d only feel as though preference was given if one had a very meaningful name, maybe a family name or one with special meaning, and the other name was just picked because the parents liked it.
I’d never ever assume this, personally! I think names can be great matches regardless of syllable counts, and I wouldn’t assume preference of a child had anything to do with it. Plus… children are named before their personalities are developed, so, I’d find this pretty nonsensical. I hope that perspective helps!
I would only wonder if the second daughter’s name style is so drastically different and she isn’t named for someone. I guess I’d also wonder if one girl had a very sophisticated sounding name and the other daughter had a trendy one.
But even this is too much thought. [name_m]Long[/name_m] and short don’t matter at all.
I don’t think it shows favoritism but I know from personal experience that some kids would notice. My sister is a little bummed that my name has a natural nickname and hers doesn’t and I’ve always been a bit jealous that her middle is a super cool unique name and mine is a weird spelling of a common name no one ever pronounces right. Its not been a huge source of resentment that’s ruined our lives or our relationship, we’re actually really close despite a pretty big age gap, so if THE name isn’t a perfect match it’s not the end of the world and I don’t think it should be a dealbreaker, but I do intent to try and avoid extreme differences in my own future children’s names.
Edit to add: actual physical length by itself wouldn’t necessarily be a big deal to me, what I would notice more is if one kid has a nickname and the other doesn’t. Like Anne and Josephine can work together because they both have at least one obvious nickname option, but Erin and Josephine feels bit uneven because Erin doesn’t really have any natural nicknames so she would always be “just Erin” while her sister gets to choose between being “JJ/Jo/Josie/etc.”