Nevada License Plate Slogan

Nevada's current standard passenger plate reads "Home Means Nevada" at the bottom, set inside a stylized multi-colored mountain range. The design debuted on November 1, 2016 and replaced the earlier sunset plate as supplies turned over.

The slogan itself did not change in 2024, but the serial formats did. Nevada's Home Means Nevada base continued with new serial patterns beginning in March 2024, so the current era is still the Home Means Nevada era.

The phrase comes from Nevada's official state song, written by Bertha Raffetto and adopted in 1933. That makes the current plate more emotional than the old mining nickname: it points to home, landscape, and belonging.

"The Silver State" refers to Nevada's silver-mining history, especially the Comstock Lode and the mining boom that helped push Nevada toward statehood during the Civil War.

The slogan first appeared on the bighorn sheep standard base issued in 1984. That base was recognized by ALPCA as a 1985 Plate of the Year co-winner, which is why some sources associate the slogan with 1985 even though the base began in 1984.

The Silver State wording continued on the sunset base introduced in January 2001. Sunset plates were issued into 2017 while the new Home Means Nevada base phased in.

Nevada's early slogan history has one unusual entry: a centennial strip on the 1963 base. The strip commemorated Nevada's statehood centennial, with "1864" and "1964" flanking "NEVADA CENTENNIAL."

This was not the beginning of a permanent slogan tradition. It was an anniversary treatment on an existing base, followed by years of standard plates without a recurring state-identity slogan.

Nevada's standard plate slogans are few: a statehood centennial strip, The Silver State, and Home Means Nevada.