Quinceañero is a common Spanish term for a boy celebrating his fifteenth birthday. It is the masculine counterpart to quinceañera, which traditionally refers to the girl being honored.
The feminine form became much more widely associated with the formal Latin American celebration, so quinceañero may be less familiar internationally. A boy’s celebration can use similar elements, including a formal outfit, family ceremony, reception, court, speeches, and dancing.
Terminology is not perfectly uniform across Spanish-speaking communities. Families may simply describe the event as a fifteenth birthday, and local customs can influence whether the celebration follows the conventional quinceañera pattern. The masculine noun should not be confused with chambelán.
A chambelán is a male attendant in a quinceañera court, not necessarily the person celebrating his own fifteenth birthday. Likewise, quinceañero identifies the celebrant, while corte de honor identifies the accompanying court.