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This one is a doozy...

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Firstly, in Hebrew, arel means 'imperfect', 'unclean' and 'uncircumcised'. Arella would therefore be feminising arel by tacking on an -la (in the same sense that one would feminise Aviv or Adam by tacking an 'A' to the end of the name), however arella doesn't exist as a word.

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I've done some digging and according to a couple of sites I trust, Arella is the feminine form of Arel which does, in fact, mean 'angel'. I'm perplexed, though, because the (transliterated) Hebrew word for angel is mal'ach.

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So, on one hand, you're correct in that it means 'angel' or 'messenger', but on the other hand, it means 'unclean' and 'uncircumcised'.

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I'll try to do some more digging.

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Mashka