Coretta \c(o)-retta, cor(et)-ta\ as a girl's name. Elaborated form of Cora, using the -etta ending (originally an Italian diminutive form). Name of the widow of American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King.

For more information, see also the related name Kora.

Baby names that sound like Coretta are Caretta and Koretta. Other similar baby names are Coletta, Conetta, Corvetta, Cosetta, Doretta and Loretta.