I have no expectations. Why would I start a thread if I thought I already knew the answer?
Although the name Robin is equally common for boys AND girls now, it seems to be universally true that when spelled ROBYN, it is a girls name (although can be spelled Robin for both genders).
Yet we have a relatively famous male Robyn here, Robyn Williams, an Australian science journalist. I always wondered what his folks were thinking? 
“Son, this world is rough,
if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough.”
No, I wouldn’t do it.
I don’t like the idea of giving a boy a girl’s name or vice versa. My high school math teacher named her daughter Dylan and everyone else adored it, but I hated it. It looks like you’re trying too hard to be unique.
What’s “trying too hard to be unique?” everyone already is unique. No name is guaranteed to be unique, but there’s nothing wrong with teaching for unusual. After all, every name that exists now was unique when it was used for the first time.
I don’t think I would go out of my way to name a boy with a feminine-sounding name.
But there are names from different cultures or languages that sound feminine in a Western context. African male names like Issa, Coffi, or Kemi would likely confuse some folks. But I don’t think that’s a good enough reason not to pick those names.
We had a beloved poster (now deceased) whose handle was “Askia”. Initially, I was not familiar with that name, so for a long time I thought “Askia” was a girl. Now when I look at it, it screams “masculine” because Askia’s personality was masculine.
So while I don’t think I’d name a boy “Sue”, I wouldn’t be against naming him something that sounds feminine.
Certainly not.
Askia died? When?
*And if I ever have a son, I think I’m gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name! *
No way, if i ever had a son he would get a manly name like Lance or Bruce.
Michael Learned
Darryl Hannah
Glenn Close
…just to name a few really more famous ones.
As for the question in the OP; depends on the name. I love them for gender swaps, like some of the interesting mentions above. But I’d never call a son Buffy or anything.
says wolfman…
But to the OPs point, no. I would not give a girl’s name to a boy. Just imagine the hassles he would get in the school yard, being a teen is hard enough without that crap.
I named my son Ashley after my paternal grandfather.
Wyatt, Lincoln, James, and Maxwell are all the age three and under daughters of celebrities.
I find the above examples awful, and no, I wouldn’t do the reverse to a boy.
All the feminine name the OP listed, I don’t especially like, and wouldn’t give the to a girl, either. FWIW, I don’t especially like the trend of giving girls boys’ names, just because it’s part of the overall cre8tiv naming thing going ion today, but it has happened before to a lot of names-- to Shirley, for example. Yes, that was a boys’ name, and then Charlotte Bronte wrote a book about a man who really wanted a son when his daughter was born, so he named her “Shirley,” and she grew up feisty and scrappy, as befit a girl with that name.
I think the real clincher was Shirley Temple, though. No one would name a boy Shirley again after her.
If I wanted to give my son a biblical name, I might pick a name that was thought of by the gentile public as a girl’s name, but that Jews know is a boys name, then use a nickname. I’m thinking in particular of the name “Ariel,” which you find as a boys’ name among Jews in the US, but as a girls name among gentiles. We actually considered it as a middle name for our son, but decided not to use it when someone we knew had a baby soon before us and used it as a first name (for a boy).
But I’m not going to give my son a name that would get him teased, so no, I wouldn’t name him Melinda, Sarah, Virginia, or Katherine. I doubt I’d even call him Kelly, Leslie or Jody. However, if he had a deceased relative I wanted to honor, named Marion or Vivian or Lindsay, I would use it as a middle name, and carefully use the masculine spelling. He doesn’t ever have to share it. But I knew lots of people with odd middle names because they were named after a deceased relative. I knew people with Yiddish names no one ever uses anymore, like Feigle, and I know a guy whose middle name is Lemuel.
Perhaps because you think the current practice is “wrong,” and you’re trying to make a point.
There are a lot of names that in Anglo-American are considered feminine to one extent or another that were originally completely masculine or at least neutral (purposely ignoring spelling variations):
Adrian, Alexis, Ashley, Aubrey, Audrey, Avery, Beverly, Blair, Bobby, Bret, Cameron, Carol, Charly, Christy, Ciaran, Clare, Cory, Courtney, Crystal, Dale, Dana, Danny, Evelyn, Fay, Fran, Franny, Francis, Gale, Gene, Gillian, Ginger, Hilary, Jamey, Jan, Jess, Jessy, Jody, Jordan, Josie, Julie, Kay, Kelly, Kelsey, Kim, Lanny, Laury, Lee, Leslie, Lindsay, Lou, Lucy, Lyn, Marion, Nicky, Paige, Patsy, Piper, Randy, Rene, Robin, Ronny, Sandy, Shannon, Shelly, Shirley, Stacy, Steph, Stevie, Tamesin, Terry, Tracy, Valery, Viv, Vivian, Whitney, Winnie
I wrote about this in a failed thread attempt back in 2006:
You have me confused with someone else. If I wanted to make a point, I’d have simply said what I thought. Nothing I’ve written in this thread can reasonably be interpreted as propounding an opinion one way or the other, and in fact I do not have opinion on the propriety or impropriety of giving kids names associated with the other sex.
When I was much younger I knew a boy named “Sharon” pronounced Shar-ran in Texas… He had 2 older brothers with typical male names. He was a holy terror…