Number plate search

Enter a name, your initials, a word or a registration into the number plate search. We look at plates from UK dealers and from DVLA (the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency), the government body that gives out registration numbers. Matches are listed cheapest first. Each price is the total you pay. It already includes DVLA's £80 fee for putting the number on your car, plus VAT (the 20% tax).

Types of plates

1923 BY

Dateless No year in the number, so they fit any car from £1,095 all-in

A503 LLP

Prefix A letter at the start shows the year (1983 to 2001) from £169 all-in

FVL 836X

Suffix A letter at the end shows the year (1963 to 1983) from £140 all-in

CVZ 3219

Irish Northern Ireland plates with no year, so they fit any car from £199 all-in

AL53 OAL

Cheap plates The lowest prices from £140 all-in

How the search works

Type the letters or numbers you would like on your plate. That can be an exact registration you saw on the road, your initials, a word or a name such as SAM. We check every plate we hold from dealers and from DVLA's own plate shop, DVLA Personalised Registrations, and show every match.

Every price you see is the total you will pay. If VAT or DVLA's £80 fee is missing from a dealer's price, we add it. That way you can compare what each plate really costs. The cheapest results come first. If more than one seller has the same plate, you see their prices next to each other. Prices are from our latest check. Before you pay, check the final total on the seller's own page.

This reg plate finder works for any private plate search, such as dateless plates, names or cheap current style plates. A dateless plate has no year in it. The newest kind is the current style plate, which looks like AB12 CDE: two letters, two numbers, then three letters.

Will this plate work on your car?

A private plate can never make a car look newer than its real age. For instance, a car first registered in 2003 can't carry a plate with the 2007 year number (07). Dateless plates have no year, so the age rule never stops them, and any car can have one. You can't put a private number on a car with a Q registration. DVLA gives a car a Q number when it can't confirm its age, as with some kit cars.

Before you buy, check the year your car was first registered against the number plate years. Still not sure? Read the private plate rules first.