The traditional Spanish term for a boy who celebrates his fifteenth birthday in a quinceañera-style ceremony is quinceañero.
Quinceañero is the masculine form associated with quinceañera. The word can describe the male honoree or, depending on usage, the celebration connected with his fifteenth birthday. Such celebrations are less widespread than quinceañeras, but male versions exist in several Latin American communities.
The term is built from quince, meaning fifteen, with the Spanish suffix -añero associated with years or age. It is distinct from chambelán, which generally identifies a male attendant in a quinceañera court rather than the honoree.
Customs for quinceañeros are not standardized across all countries. Some families adapt the formal entrance, court, dances, religious elements, and symbolic rituals traditionally associated with quinceañeras, while others hold a more general fifteenth-birthday party.