Maryland license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Maryland license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 7 plate formats issued in Maryland and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 48581.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (MDOT MVA) or a licensed plate maker, and showing a registration that was not issued to the vehicle is an offence in most places.
Private by design. The page downloads an empty plate and writes your registration into it on your device; the registration is never sent to us. Need many plates, or plates in your own app? The plates API returns every plate and its empty template for each format.
- Size
- 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) for motorcycles
- Format
- 9LL9999, for example 2KO8545 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Two plates, front and rear
- Every fact about Maryland license plates, with its source
Every Maryland plate you can make
7 plates across 5 classes (standard, government, historic, motorcycle, and specialty), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Maryland license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Maryland license plate templates.
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Standard: War of 1812 (~2010–2016) Format 9L L9999 · e.g. 2B Q9019 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Maryland proud (~2016 → today) Format 9LL9999 · e.g. 2KO8545 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (~2016 → today) Format 999Y99 · e.g. 689Y47 Format, years and sources
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Historic (2016 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 648609 Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (2016 → today) Format 9LL9999 · e.g. 5VE7951 Format, years and sources
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State government (~2014 → today) Format 99999 · e.g. 48581 Format, years and sources
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Local government (~2014 → today) Format 99999 · e.g. 58320 Format, years and sources
How the generator works
- Choose a country or state, then the plate: the standard plate first, then motorcycle, personalized, historic and the rest, each with the years it was issued.
- Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
- Type a registration, a name or any text. It is drawn on the plate as you type, in the plate's own lettering, and shrunk to fit when it is long (24 characters at most). The generator also says whether it fits that plate's real format, the one the issuing authority publishes; tick "Only real formats" to draw real registrations only and see which plates a registration fits. Characters the plate's lettering does not have, like emoji, are left out, and the generator names them.
- Download the plate as SVG (a vector for print and design tools) or PNG (2400 pixels wide), copy a link, or copy the code to embed it on a web page.
More Maryland license plates
- Maryland license plates
- Blank Maryland license plate templates
- Vehicles registered in the United States