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The Ontario driver's license has 15 letters and digits. The initial letter is the first letter of the driver's last name. S for Smith, R for Roberts, B for Black and so on. The four digits which follow that letter, indicate the name is the same as all other names spelled the same way. If the numbers following the S for the name Smith were 1234, then that would mean that every person with the name Smith would have S1234 as the first letter and first 4 digits. There are 5 digits as the next sequence. The last of those 5 digits is 'attached' to the last sequence of 5 digits to indicate the driver's date of birth.
The second number in the last sequence of 5 numbers indicates the gender of the driver. A male driver is 0; a female driver is 5. Smith the driver's date of birth is January 15, 1991. Smith the driver is male. Smith's last 6 numbers of his driver's license will be: 9-10115.
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There are 4 numbers in the driver's license which do not seem to be indicative of anything special and may be randomly assigned. I have been unable to find out what those 4 numbers mean or even if they do mean something. So they MAY be random. The result of this example would be a driver's license for Mr. Smith which might look like this: S1234-xxxx9-10115 where the x stands for numbers which might be randomly assigned. If I can ascertain if the x actually designates something, I will be back to improve this answer. Most of the time they don't 'mean' anything.
When I first got my license in Missouri, by comparing it with thatof my friends I was able to figure out that the first letter of thelicense number was the first letter of my last name (this waspretty obvious), and it also seemed to be true that the next twodigits were the numerical value of the second letter of my lastname (in my case this was U, so the digits were 21). Missouri no longer issues licenses using that numbering scheme anymore, and like most other states that I'm aware of they just useyour social security number if you have one and don't specificallyobject to its use, or a semi-random number they generate if you doobject or don't have an SSN for some reason.