Pennsylvania personalized & vanity plates

See if a plate is still up for grabs in Pennsylvania, and what Pennsylvania lets you spell.

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Pennsylvania is one of the 20 states Plate Gator checks live. Type a combination to see whether it can still be ordered.

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Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania: 1–7 characters · letters, numbers and spaces, “-”

Pennsylvania only answers inside its order flow, so this check walks through a few pages and can take a moment.

What Pennsylvania says about plate text

Up to 7 letters and numbers plus either a hyphen or a space — not both — and on standard plates that separator does not count toward the 7. Motorcycle plates max 5, and there the separator does count. From the PennDOT personalized plate fact sheet (February 2025).

The rule this came from

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Pennsylvania plate format rules

Length
1–7 characters.
Allowed characters
Letters A–Z, numbers 0–9, and spaces, “-”.

Up to 7 letters and numbers plus either a hyphen or a space — not both — and on standard plates that separator does not count toward the 7. Motorcycle plates max 5, and there the separator does count. From the PennDOT personalized plate fact sheet (February 2025).

The official Pennsylvania source