Adding & Sharing your Pronouns in Zoom

How to Add Pronouns to your Zoom Profile

Customize your profile to include your pronouns, and choose when to share them during a meeting or webinar.

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation panel, click Profile.
  3. On the right side of your name, click Edit.
  4. In the Pronouns field, enter your pronouns.
  5. In the How would you like to share your pronouns? drop-down field, choose from the following options:
    • Always share in meetings and webinars: Your pronouns will appear next to your display name automatically in any meetings that you host or join, and any webinars that you’re the host or panelist for.
    • Ask me every time after joining meetings and webinars: You will be asked if you want your pronouns to appear next to your display name in every meeting that you host or join, and any webinars that you’re the host or panelist for.
    • Do not share in meetings and webinars: Your pronouns will not appear next to your display name in any meetings or webinars. You will have to manually choose to share your pronouns.
      Note: Even if you choose not to share your pronouns in meetings or webinars, your pronouns will still appear in your profile card and be visible to your Zoom contacts if you have entered them in the Pronouns field.
  6. Click Save.

How to Share and Unshare Your Pronouns in a Meeting or Webinar

At any point during a meeting or webinar, you can choose if you want to share or unshare your pronouns.

Note: If selected, your pronouns can be shared in any meeting that you host or join. Only webinar hosts and panelists can share their pronouns in a webinar. Webinar attendees’ pronouns are never visible.

Sharing your pronouns when prompted

If you selected Ask me every time after joining meetings and webinars in the Zoom web portal, you will be asked if you want to share your pronouns and must confirm in each meeting that you host or join, or webinar that you're the host or panelist for.

  1. Start or join a meeting, start a webinar as the host, or join a webinar as a panelist.
    In the main meeting/webinar screen, a prompt will appear and give you the options Don't Share and Share.
  2. When prompted if you’d like to share your pronouns in the meeting or webinar, click Share.
    Your pronouns will appear next to your display name in your participant video or thumbnail and next to your display name in the Manage Participants list.

Manually sharing your pronouns

  1. In the meeting controls toolbar, tap Manage Participants.
    Participants icon
  2. Find your name, then tap Ellipses button to the right of it.
  3. Tap Share My Pronouns.
    Your pronouns will appear next to your display name in your participant video or thumbnail and next to your display name in the Participants list.

Unsharing your pronouns

You can unshare your pronouns at any time.

  1. In the meeting controls toolbar, tap Manage Participants.
    Participants icon
  2. Find your name, then tap Ellipses button to the right of it.
  3. Tap Unshare My Pronouns.
    Your pronouns will no longer appear next to your display name.
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