Connecticut personalized & vanity plates

What Connecticut lets you spell on a plate, and how to check availability yourself.

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Plate Gator can't check Connecticut availability automatically

Connecticut's vanity plate flow requires personal identity details and a current Connecticut registration before any availability answer.

So the only way to know for sure is to ask Connecticut directly — the preview above still works, but Plate Gator will not run a live check for Connecticut.

Check on the Connecticut DMV site

Connecticut plate format rules

Length
1–7 characters.
Allowed characters
Letters A–Z and numbers 0–9 only.

Standard vehicles max 7, motorcycles 6, veteran flag-style motorcycle plates 5 (where a dot counts as a character on that variant alone). All-numeric vanity plates of 1 to 3 digits are unavailable; no other minimum is published.

The official Connecticut source