Indiana personalized & vanity plates
What Indiana lets you spell on a plate, and how to check availability yourself.
Plate Gator can't check Indiana availability automatically
Indiana only offers plate availability inside myBMV, which requires an account login.
So the only way to know for sure is to ask Indiana directly — the preview above still works, but Plate Gator will not run a live check for Indiana.
Indiana plate format rules
- Length
- 2–8 characters.
- Allowed characters
- Letters A–Z, numbers 0–9, and spaces.
- Letters
- Must contain at least one letter (no all-number combinations).
Standard passenger plates allow up to 8 characters; standard motorcycle 6; all other distinctive plates 6 for passenger and 5 for motorcycle. A message cannot be all numbers, cannot contain two consecutive spaces, and cannot duplicate the alpha/number format of another BMV-issued plate.