New Jersey · sequential passenger map
New Jersey license-plate format
New Jersey’s recent passenger serial is one letter, two digits, a hyphen, and three letters. In this atlas the pattern string uses A for a letter slot and 9 for a digit slot. Other characters are separators that appear on the metal but do not enlarge the combination space.
- Pattern
- A99-AAA
- Classes
- 4 letters + 2 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 45,697,600
- Model year
- 2019
How the map works
Each A slot independently takes one glyph from ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Each 9 slot takes 0–9. The product of those bases is 45,697,600 — the size of the sequential space taught here. Hyphens, spaces and dots in A99-AAA are display only.
New Jersey burned through ABC-1234 and D12-ABC style blocks. The A99-AAA map is the current sequential teaching format in this atlas.
Before this map, New Jersey used ABC-1234 and D12-ABC transitions. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 45,697,600 figure.
SPR-9932 (three letters, four digits) is the older national look, not current New Jersey sequential.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits A99-AAA is in-class. It is not automatically an issued plate. Series can skip blocks, retire numbers, or reserve low digits. This essay never queries a motor-vehicle file. See also generated vs issued.