Short version: New Hampshire's low-number ("reserved") plates are real and genuinely coveted, but who holds which number is not public information. There is no waitlist, lottery, or published criteria to mirror here — and the underlying registration records are confidential by statute.
What we do know
New Hampshire has issued plates numbered from 1 upward since 1944, and the lowest numbers have always carried outsized prestige — reporting from New Hampshire Magazine describes people inquiring about a low-number plate's availability within days of its holder's obituary running. Unlike Massachusetts's Low Plate Board (a public lottery and re-assignment process) or Maine's public waiting list, New Hampshire's low-number plates are allocated at the discretion of the Commissioner of Safety, with no published application process, waitlist, or criteria. One former state senator's advice on getting one: ask the Commissioner directly — "it's his prerogative."
Why we can't show you who has which plate
New Hampshire's Driver Privacy Act, codified at RSA 260:14, makes motor vehicle registration records confidential — they are not public records and aren't open to inspection except through the specific, narrow channels the statute lists (law enforcement, insurance, government agencies, and a handful of others). That's a real and deliberate difference from Massachusetts, where the equivalent records are public and our sister site's Low Plate Board table is built from them. We're not going to publish vehicle-owner data we don't have a lawful, public basis to publish, so there's no NHPlates equivalent of that table.
What this means for the Idea Finder
Because low-number plates aren't allocated by request, they aren't part of the Idea Finder's search scope — see the plate catalog for the Vanity plate types you actually can request, each with the NH DMV's own documented eligibility rules.