I'd assume it's just natural height variation. I mean IRL, my friend is 5'1", my sister-in-law is 6', and I'm right in the middle, and that's just from a small sample size.
I can't speak for OS2's internals as I haven't successfully modded it yet, but e.g. Fallout 4 allows you to specify a range of heights for any given NPC (or group thereof) which will be chosen at random.
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