Virginia personalized & vanity plates

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

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

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

What Virginia says about plate text

Virginia counts in half characters: standard and scenic plates allow 7.5, where a space or hyphen costs half a character and an ampersand a full one. This dataset rounds that down to a flat 7-character maximum, so a combination such as 'AB-CD-EF' (6 letters plus 2 half-count hyphens = 7.0) that Virginia would accept is rejected here for being 8 typed characters. Heritage plates max 6.5 and logo plates max 6, sometimes plus a half space.

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Virginia plate format rules

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

Virginia counts in half characters: standard and scenic plates allow 7.5, where a space or hyphen costs half a character and an ampersand a full one. This dataset rounds that down to a flat 7-character maximum, so a combination such as 'AB-CD-EF' (6 letters plus 2 half-count hyphens = 7.0) that Virginia would accept is rejected here for being 8 typed characters. Heritage plates max 6.5 and logo plates max 6, sometimes plus a half space.

The official Virginia source