After reading quite a few stories off fanfiction.net, I actually wondered jow some of the authors come up with the human names for those who do not have an official name or those who are gender-bent.
Let's start with the gender-bent versions first. For Veneciano, I would normally see Felicia, opposed to 'Daisy' in the article Memes in fandom. Similarly for Romano, I see Lovina instead of 'Katarina'. For Ludwig, Louise is the most commonly seen. For Kiku, it's Sakura. For Alfred, Francis, Yao and Ivan, all of them mostly use those seen in the Memes in fandom article. For Arthur, most use Alice, but I've Agatha and Elizabeth before.
I've been planning to write a Gakuen Hetalia-style fic, so I was thinking of gender-bending (more than) a few characters. One of them I'm considering are Tino, where my sister suggested the name 'Tina', but since I'm from Singapore (it's a small world here), I'm not too sure if 'Tina' sounds Finnish.
I also need suggestions for human names of other characters, preferbly Norway, Iceland, Denmark (I once saw Ditmer), Serboga, Wy, Belgium (a friend suggested Isabella), Holland (Netherlands), Monaco, Ukraine, Ancient Rome, Germania (I once saw Gerhart)... Your help is greatly appreciated. >v<