Once in 2015, I asked some of my friends at uni to look at my OC design and choose who will they want to hang out with. Most of them picking Alexei, Vasily, Ivan, Semyon, Stepan, and Anatoli because they seems friendly. They said Dmitry and Fyodor was looked too cold and not interesting. Vadim, Oleg and Andrei was too intimidating.
However, I am also interested that while the girls are wary when seeing Maxim's design... the boys are looking at Maxim as normal person.