South Carolina personalized & vanity plates
What South Carolina lets you spell on a plate, and how to check availability yourself.
Plate Gator can't check South Carolina availability automatically
South Carolina publishes no online tool for checking personalized plate availability.
So the only way to know for sure is to ask South Carolina directly — the preview above still works, but Plate Gator will not run a live check for South Carolina.
South Carolina plate format rules
- Length
- 1–8 characters.
- Allowed characters
- Letters A–Z, numbers 0–9, and spaces, “&”.
Up to 8 characters, where a blank space counts as a character; motorcycles and specialty personalized plates max 6, and every combination must be approved by SCDMV. An older scdmvonline.com page said 7 for cars and trucks, but the current dmv.sc.gov page states 8.