Measurehead's name is a pun on the false race science of phrenology practiced in the 1800s, which tried to determine people's intellectual capacity by measuring their heads. Colonialists, slaveowners, and racist white gentry often used this practice to justify their enslavement of African peoples as uplifting and enlightening rather than murderous and brutally exploitative. Likewise, Measurehead's name is an overt statement that the character is zealously racist and defines people by race and ethnicity.