The Central Africa CFA franc (XAF) is known in French as the Franc CFA, where CFA stands for Coopération financière en Afrique centrale ("Financial Cooperation in Central Africa").
Srednjoafrički CFA franak (XAF), poznat također samo pod nazivom Franc CFA gdje CFA znači Coopération financière en Afrique centrale ("Financijska suradnja u srednjoj Africi").