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Personalized license plates

Personalized license plates are available with the standard plate background for passenger vehicles, recreational vehicles, and one-ton pickup trucks. Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) will not issue a plate that replicates any existing series of license plates or a series reserved for future use.

Characters allowed on a passenger vehicle 

Please refer to the special plate brochure to view characters allowed on other vehicle types. 

  • Standard passenger plates are allowed to have a minimum of one character and a maximum of seven characters (including spaces). 
  • A character is considered any upper-case letter, space, hyphen or number. 
  • All personalized plate choices must include at least one letter character. 

To check the availability of your desired personalized plate name and purchase plates, go to the Personalized Plate Search online tool.

Specialized plates may be personalized however the maximum characters allowed may be less than seven characters for motorcycles, mopeds, one-ton pickups, recreational vehicle, etc. 

Personalized plates are available with the disability parking symbol for qualified applicants. 

The plates can be transferred to another vehicle owned by the applicant.

Plate images

Fees

Initial plate fee: $100

Plates may be transferred to another vehicle of the same type owned by the applicant for a $5 fee.

How to apply 

Online: You can check if your personalized plate choice is available and purchase plates using the Personalized Plate Search.

In person: Visit your local deputy registrar office.  

By mail: Applications mailed in take longer to process and will be returned if the fees are incorrect. When mailing, please use the motor vehicle fees page to determine fees due or contact Driver and Vehicle Services at 651-297-2126 for more information on fees. Our mailing address is: 

Driver and Vehicle Services 
445 Minnesota St.
St. Paul, MN 55101-5187​ 

Related links

Minnesota Statute 168.10 

Minnesota Statute 168.12(2a)

Application for Special Plates