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Note that the caret (‸) and circumflex (^) are different signs. The caret is used across plenty Latin orthographies to convey that something is missing, as its name implies; while the circumflex is a diacritic usually going over the letters, whose function depends on the orthography of the language in question.
EDIT: as for the etymology of circumflex it's basically ~~Ben Dover~~ "bent around" (circumflexum).
I feel like I often have trouble finding the circumflex.
In my keyboard it's in a big flashy position, right in the middle row, but that's because my L1 (Portuguese) uses it a lot.
If you're using a default Dutch (based on your instance) keyboard, check if the key to the right of [P] doesn't have it:
