What is the traditional male term corresponding to a quinceañera?

The traditional male term corresponding to a quinceañera is quinceañero. It describes a boy or young man associated with a fifteenth-birthday coming-of-age celebration.

Quinceañera is the feminine form, while quinceañero is the masculine form of the Spanish word built around quince, meaning fifteen. The distinction follows Spanish grammatical gender rather than identifying a separate type of birthday.

In practice, the female celebration is much more widely recognized and documented than male versions. A boy’s fifteenth-birthday event may use the term quinceañero, but customs and names differ among countries and families.

The term is also easy to confuse with the names of the attendants. A quinceañera’s court may include damas and chambelanes; those words describe participants in the ceremony, not the male equivalent of the celebrant.