US passenger serials plates.autos

CA · West

California license plates

California’s long-running passenger serial is one digit, three letters, three digits (1ABC123). This hub is the parent of the format essay and the combinations index. Reload to draw a new strip of in-format examples; the format page itself does not shuffle.

Pattern
9AAA999
Skeleton
3 letters + 4 digits
Serials in map
156,250,000
Atlas year
1980

California format Combinations

California exhausted AAA 999 in the 1970s and introduced the seven-character 1ABC123 format in 1980. The leading digit increments as letter blocks roll. Sequential passenger plates are not vanity phrases.

Letter I is often avoided. A string like SPR9932 (letters first) is not a California passenger serial.

Catalogue samples (stable)

Seeded from the state slug so crawlers see the same eight URLs on every request.

Fresh draws (this request)

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