Personalized Licence Plate

A personalized plate cannot be requested for dealer, antique, consular corps or disabled plates.

Your plate must follow these guidelines:

must be letters and/or numbers – special characters are not permitted,including - (hyphen), ’ (apostrophe), ! (exclamation mark), ? (question mark)
have a minimum of 1 character and/or a maximum of 7 characters for regular plates
have a minimum of 1 character and/or a maximum of 5 characters for motorcycle plates

Personalized plates are issued on a first come first served basis. Plate configurations cannot be reserved.

There are also restrictions on what you can have on your personalized plate:

cannot be a look-alike or similar plate to one that already exists
can’t use the letter O, only a 0 (zero) may be used
no ethnic slurs
no religious slurs
no foul language
no sexual connotations
no political slurs
no illegal acts
no text that may cause identification problems, such as MLA, Mayor, Doctor, etc.
no text message abbreviation that may be offensive.
no words when translated are offensive.
no reference to alcoholic beverages, controlled substances or paraphernalia used in the consumption of these
must not be a configuration used by Motor Vehicles for regular licence plates

How to apply for your personalized licence plate

You must bring your Alberta driver licence and come in person to our office to place the order. Please review the above guidelines prior to choosing your configuration. The cost is $218.00

Transferring and changing a personalized plate

You may request a change to your personalized plate after the order is placed, within the first 90 days to:

cancel and refund – you must return both unused licence plates
exchange the unused plate for a new configuration

A personalized licence plate can only be transferred:

to an immediate family member, such as mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, spouse, common-law spouse and in-laws
between a company and the company owner, when the person is the only owner of the company

Once a personalized licence plate is issued, you don’t pay any additional fees to retain the special plate. You only pay the standard vehicle registration renewal fee.