Maine sixth in nation for vanity plate use

URSOVAIN Virginia.

You, too, New Hampshire, Illinois, Nevada, Montana and Maine.

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.

Out 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.

Maine, ranking sixth, reported 107,000 vanity plates among 1,093,341 vehicle licenses.

Texas had the fewest, with only about a half percent of drivers personalizing their plates.