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Jocelyn and Morgan are two of my favourite boy names ever. I love them to pieces.

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Jocelyn and Morgan on girls sound tacky and 80's.

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I find Ivory tacky on either gender.

Jocelyn and Ivory for girls not boys and Morgan for a boy not a girl. That's my preference.

I lOVE Jocelyn (have liked it since elementary school many many years ago) and would definitely use it myself.
Ivory's ok, I suppose.
Morgan currently seems trendy and not overdone.
The first 2 are less common. I'd go with one of those.

I dislike Jocelyn over all but I like Joss for boy, and don't mind Jocelyn on a girl too much.

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Ivory makes me think of elephants and soap, which is problematic I find it tacky on a girl and too feminine for a boy.

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Morgan is totally nms on a girl. Its really masculine and not at all pretty. I love it for a boy though. I find it handsome and strong.

I love Jocelyn, Morgan and Ivory on boys. and Ivory on a girl.

I think Jocelyn and Ivory are female, but Morgan could go either way.

-On girls:

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Jocelyn - Sounds very fussy.

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Ivory - ...and Ebony. :) I find it kind of colonialist-like (think about the material and the colour), though it is a pretty name. It has amazing phonetics.

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Morgan - I find Morgane, Morgaine and Morgana thousand times better.

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-On boys:

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Jocelyn - would be kind of weird, but definitely interesting! -lyn ending names look often good on both boys and girls (thinking about Evelyn).

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Ivory - Reminds me of Irving. I can see it working. Definitely better on boys than girls. Ivory Ambrose, Ivory Ursus, Ivory Xerxes, Ivory Maurice. Yep, workable. :)

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Morgan - On my PNL as a masculine name. I find it strongly masculine. The meaning is wonderful.

Jocelyn is a bit fancy for a boy, I think, even though it started as a male name and is still occasionally used as such among the English "upper crust".
I prefer Morgan on a boy although I don't dislike it on a girl.
I would never use Ivory under any circumstances - I believe in elephants keeping their tusks!

Jocelyn and Morgan are some of my top names for girls, so obviously I love them. I prefer the spelling Joscelin for boys. Morgan is fine for either gender. Ivory reminds me of soap. I don't think it would work on a boy.

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What do you think of Jocelyn, Ivory, and Morgan on girls?

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I like all three of them. Sometimes I go right off Jocelyn, thinking it sounds like a synthetic fabric, but right now I think it's fine.

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Ivory is very pretty. It would be considered "out there" where I live but it helps that it sounds like a name; it has the rhythm of Emily, Stephanie, Bethany, Melody etc and the similarity to Ivy and to Ebony, which are established names.

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I love Morgan on both sexes, which covers Morgan on a boy as well. I dislike Jocelyn on a boy intensely. Never met one, could not imagine why, of all the men's names out there (unisex included), a parent might think Jocelyn was a good solid name for a son.

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And Ivory on a boy...Isn't there someone vaguely famous with this name? I dislike word names on boys with just one or two exceptions. Ivory is probably better than anything floral or gemstone-related, but still. (If this makes me sound closed-minded, I'm really not! But I can only form a proper opinion about a name when I visualise it on a person. Although you say 'in theory', I know.)

I like Jocelyn only on a girl. It just sounds too fem for a boy imo.

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Morgan on boy or girl but I'm not a fan of the name in general.

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Ivory reminds me of Keenan Ivory Wayans so I generally would associate it w/ a boy but I think it would work for either. I like it.

I like Jocelyn on either, although I think I prefer it on a girl.

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Morgan I love on a boy, but dislike on a girl.

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I don't like Ivory, but it looks and sounds masculine.