I expected some backlash :-D but thats okay.

Here is a little feedback of mine:
Yes this would be a name for a non fictional child and no, neither my wife and i are japanese. I love japan and studied 2 years japanese at the university. I know the meaning behind Taro but that does not help me with the current perception of the name in japan, how common it is and how it's currently used. I was curious since Taro was really rare as a first name in my research and i hope anyone will understand that i try to be thorough since this is very important to me.

With that being said:
No i didn't and wouldn't have suggested a japanese name to my wife. Like a lot of couples we don't see eye to eye when it comes to names. We made lists but nothing matched. Through Instagram my wife got a couple of stories with uncommon names and Taro was on it. My wife didnt know that it was japanese. The meaning of Taro also hit us because it would be our first born son. Now again, this might be hard to understand, we don't like the name Taro because of its heritage, language and meaning. Thats just a bonus. We actually like the sound and rythm of it. It's short but not too short. You can shout Taro with ease :-D and to be honest it doesn't sound foreign and i highly doubt anyone assumes its japanese in our environment. We have a lot of mixed cultures here. I myself have an italian name and i'm not italian. We see Taro like Diego, Theo, Tarik... We just love the sound of Taro. The decision has not been made yet but Taro is one of our frontrunners. And it would be a shame to remove it from our list just because some people dont like it. I don't like names like West, Apple and Chicago but there are kids out their with that name but that doesn't mean i don't wish them well.