Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage English, Spanish Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 10/15/2009 by iROCK Edited 5/29/2016 by LMS Meaning & History Possibly a combination of CORA and Ella, or inspired by the Basque surname Corella used in the Navarre province, or from the Italian surname thought to be a diminutive of a feminine form of Core, itself a diminutive of names containing the element.