The 50 batters with the most home runs, 1871–2021

Every batter on this list is ranked on one number: home runs in the regular season between 1871 and 2021. Nothing else is weighed, and the figures each ranking rests on are in the table.

Home runs — the leading 15. Every one of the 50 is in the table below.

#	Player	Seasons	Home runs	Games	Hits	RBI
1	Barry Bonds	1986–2007	762	2,986	2,935	1,996
2	Hank Aaron	1954–1976	755	3,298	3,771	2,297
3	Babe Ruth	1914–1935	714	2,503	2,873	2,217
4	Alex Rodriguez	1994–2016	696	2,784	3,115	2,086
5	Albert Pujols	2001–2021	679	2,971	3,301	2,150
6	Willie Mays	1951–1973	660	2,992	3,283	1,903
7	Ken Griffey	1989–2010	630	2,671	2,781	1,836
8	Jim Thome	1991–2012	612	2,543	2,328	1,699
9	Sammy Sosa	1989–2007	609	2,354	2,408	1,667
10	Frank Robinson	1956–1976	586	2,808	2,943	1,812
11	Mark McGwire	1986–2001	583	1,874	1,626	1,414
12	Harmon Killebrew	1954–1975	573	2,435	2,086	1,584
13	Rafael Palmeiro	1986–2005	569	2,831	3,020	1,835
14	Reggie Jackson	1967–1987	563	2,820	2,584	1,702
15	Manny Ramirez	1993–2011	555	2,302	2,574	1,831
16	Mike Schmidt	1972–1989	548	2,404	2,234	1,595
17	David Ortiz	1997–2016	541	2,408	2,472	1,768
18	Mickey Mantle	1951–1968	536	2,401	2,415	1,509
19	Jimmie Foxx	1925–1945	534	2,317	2,646	1,922
20	Ted Williams	1939–1960	521	2,292	2,654	1,839
20	Willie McCovey	1959–1980	521	2,588	2,211	1,555
20	Frank Thomas	1990–2008	521	2,322	2,468	1,704
23	Eddie Mathews	1952–1968	512	2,391	2,315	1,453
23	Ernie Banks	1953–1971	512	2,528	2,583	1,636
25	Mel Ott	1926–1947	511	2,730	2,876	1,860
26	Gary Sheffield	1988–2009	509	2,576	2,689	1,676
27	Eddie Murray	1977–1997	504	3,026	3,255	1,917
28	Miguel Cabrera	2003–2021	502	2,587	2,987	1,804
29	Lou Gehrig	1923–1939	493	2,164	2,721	1,995
29	Fred McGriff	1986–2004	493	2,460	2,490	1,550
31	Adrian Beltre	1998–2018	477	2,933	3,166	1,707
32	Stan Musial	1941–1963	475	3,026	3,630	1,951
32	Willie Stargell	1962–1982	475	2,360	2,232	1,540
34	Carlos Delgado	1993–2009	473	2,035	2,038	1,512
35	Chipper Jones	1993–2012	468	2,499	2,726	1,623
36	Dave Winfield	1973–1995	465	2,973	3,110	1,833
37	Jose Canseco	1985–2001	462	1,887	1,877	1,407
37	Adam Dunn	2001–2014	462	2,001	1,631	1,168
39	Carl Yastrzemski	1961–1983	452	3,308	3,419	1,844
40	Jeff Bagwell	1991–2005	449	2,150	2,314	1,529
40	Vladimir Guerrero	1996–2011	449	2,147	2,590	1,496
40	Nelson Cruz	2005–2021	449	1,882	1,913	1,238
43	Dave Kingman	1971–1986	442	1,941	1,575	1,210
44	Jason Giambi	1995–2014	440	2,260	2,010	1,441
45	Paul Konerko	1997–2014	439	2,349	2,340	1,412
46	Andre Dawson	1976–1996	438	2,627	2,774	1,591
47	Carlos Beltran	1998–2017	435	2,586	2,725	1,587
48	Juan Gonzalez	1989–2005	434	1,689	1,936	1,404
48	Andruw Jones	1996–2012	434	2,196	1,933	1,289
50	Cal Ripken	1981–2001	431	3,001	3,184	1,695

How this list is made

Ranked on home runs in the regular season, 1871–2021. Players are ranked on that number alone and on nothing else: there is no judgement here about who was better. Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

The Negro Leagues are not in these figures. Major League Baseball recognised the Negro Leagues as major-league in December 2020 and added their statistics to the official record in May 2024. This database does not carry them: Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Buck Leonard and Cool Papa Bell are absent from it altogether, and Satchel Paige appears only from 1948, his American League seasons. These lists are therefore not the complete official record, and that is a limit of the source rather than a judgement about who belongs on them.

Counting statistics only. A rate — an average, a percentage — needs a minimum number of appearances before it means anything, and no such minimum is published that this site could cite. Inventing one would put a number nobody chose at the centre of a ranking. A total needs no cut-off: most goals is a fact with nothing hidden in it.

Some of these careers were not over. Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera and Nelson Cruz played in 2021, the last season this database covers, so their totals are what they had reached by then. This site has no source for what has happened since.

Career figures from the Lahman Baseball Database via the Chadwick Bureau’s Baseball Databank, CC BY-SA 3.0. Regular season only; the post-season is not counted.

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