RICHMOND, VA. — URSOVAIN, Virginia. You, too, New Hampshire, Illinois, Nevada and Montana.
A state-by-state survey of the popularity of vanity license plates has found that car and truck owners in Virginia are the vainest of them all.
Of the 9.3 million personalized plates on the roads of America, about one in 10 are in Virginia, according to rankings provided to The Associated Press by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
That’s 16 percent of the plates issued by Virginia. New Hampshire came in second with nearly 14 percent.
Illinois had about 13.4 percent, but that amounted to nearly 1.3 million plates, the most of any state.
Texas had the fewest, with only about 0.5 percent of drivers personalizing their plates.
Colorado ranked 28th, with 56,707 vanity plates out of 1,881,368 total, or 3.01 percent.
Why does Virginia have so many personalized plates?
“It’s only $10. You can do it online with little effort, ” said Benjamin Mace, a Virginia Beach Web designer who started , where people post pictures of their vanity plates. “You can get a new one every month if you wanted to.”
