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I'd streer away from Colquhoun or Urquhart as people cannot pronounce them. Your family might want also to consider whether the names below are traditionally Jacobite (supporting Charles Edward Stuart) or not (supporting the Hanoverians), and also their allegiances during the Covenanter debacles of the 17th C.

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The poshest name is of course Stuart (as in the Royal House of ...but only if soellt Stuart);

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Bruce (Robert the... King whose family became the Stuarts)
Douglas (first and last name)
Angus (first and last name)
Duncan (first and last name)
Fraser (first and last name)
Gordon (first and last name)
Grant (first and last name)
Ainsley (first and last name)

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Kelso (place name - but also the name of a character in Aileen Yempleton novels);
Kirkconnell (place name/last name?)
Cromarty (place name/area).
Moray (place/last/first name, regal name= Earl of Moray - there have been several)
Roxburgh (place name/last name)
Montrose (place name/last name)
Sutherland (place name/last name)
Dunbar (place name/last name)
Haddington (place name/last name)
Tobermory (place name but also one of the Wombles)

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In Scottish culture people (especially nobles) are often referred to by the house or estate they own or tenent. So, Tam Kerr that farms the land called Inverdarroch is referred to and known by the name Inverdarroch.

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Menteith (mpn-teeth) sounds very posh but pronunciation
Bredalbane (place name/land and earldom belonging to Clan Campbell)
Hawick (place name)
Huntly (land/earldom belonging to Clan Gordon)
Strathearn (place name)
Strathyre (place name)
Glenlogie (place name/estate belonging to Clan Gordon)
Lomond (place name)
Annachie (an - ach - ee) place name (and character in old ballad)
Alford (af ford) (place name)
Crimmond (place name, ?last name)
Erskine (place name, last name of Earls of Mar)

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Badenoch (placename - Bay den och)
Glenlovat (a name/land belonging to Clan Fraser)
Lochiel (a name/land belonging to Clan Cameron)
Seaforth (area)
Atholl (area)
Galloway (area)
Rannoch (area - Kinloch Rannoch)
Halkirk (town)
Lorne (place name - part of singer Anne Lorne Gillies' name)

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Arbuthnott (last name)
Allardyce (last name)
Brodie (last name, name of a castle)
MacDiarmid (last name)
Buchanan (last name)
MacRae (last name)
Gilmartin (last name - hard gh -servant of St Martin)
Gillespie (last name - hard gh - servant of the bishop)
Gillies (last name - hard gh - servant of Jesus)
Kilbride (last name - chapel of St Brìde)
Kilpatrick (last name - chapel of Patrick)
Kirkpatrick (last name/first name - church of St Patrick, inventor of bicycle - Kirkpatrick MacMillan)
Struan (very posh)
Carmichael (last name)
Hamilton (maybe not with the musical - noble family)
Livingstone (last name)
Wishart (last name)

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Ranald (def posh)
Aberdein (spellt that way) - last name.

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Sinclair (St Clair) - last name.